Quotes About Deception

If your husband is cheating on you, it doesn't mean that you need to get prettier -- it means he's a scumbag.

The more "normal" the person seems, the sicker she probably is.

Force is camouflaged by consents; the consent is brought about the methods of mass suggestion.

La menzogna può legare a un partito, ma solo la verità in ultima analisi porta alla liberazione dell'uomo. Troppi tuttavia sono colore che hanno paura della libertà e preferiscono l'illusione.

knowing begins with the awareness of the deceptiveness of our common sense perceptions, in the sense that our picture of physical reality does not correspond to what is "really real" and, mainly, in the sense that most people are half-awake, half-dreaming, and are unaware that most of what they hold to be true and self-evident is illusion produced by the suggestive influence of the social world in which they live.

This phenomenon, of seeing the emperor's garments although he is naked, has existed for many millennia. This is how even the stupidest people were able to become regents. They proclaimed their belief that they were wise—and it was, for their people, usually already too late by the time the ruler had to prove his wisdom.

El conocimiento empieza con la conciencia del engaño de lo que perciben nuestros sentidos en el sentido de que la mayoría de la gente esta semidespierta, semidormida, y no advierte que la mayor parte de lo que cree verdadero y evidente es una ilusión producida por la influencia sugestiva del mundo social donde vive. Así pues, el conocimiento empieza con la destrucción de las ilusiones, con la desilusión.

In a successful manipulation of the mind the person is no longer saying the opposite of what he thinks, but he thinks the opposite of what is true.

R?zní v?dcové používali až pÃ…â"¢íliÅ¡ ?asto heslo, že vedou sv?j lid do boje za svobodu, zatímco ve skute?nosti ho chtÄ›li zotro?it. Že žádný slib neoslovuje ?lovÄ›ka mocnÄ›ji, dokazuje i to, že i v?dci, kteÃ…â"¢í chtÄ›jí svobodu potla?it, považují za nutné ji slibovat.

Merken Sie sich folgendes: Meldungen, deren Unwahrheit nicht oder erst nach Wochen festgestellt werden kann, sind wahr.

Sie dürfen ihm nichts übelnehmen. Er ist seit zwanzig Jahren Journalist und glaubt bereits, was er lügt. Über seinem Gewissen liegen zehn weiche Betten, und obenauf schläft Herr Münzer den Schlaf des Ungerechten.

The best way to lose a woman was to show her a kind of life that one could offer her for only a few days.

A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!

Perhaps there is really nothing else when everything is falling to pieces, I think, except this bit of togetherness and even that is a sweet deception, for when someone else really needs you you cannot follow him or stand by him. I have noticed that often enough in the war when I looked into the face of a dead comrade. Each one of us has his own death and must suffer it alone; no one can help him then.

Sweet words. Gentle deceptive balm. Help, love, to belong together, to come back again— words, sweet words. Nothing but words. How many words existed for this simple, wild, cruel attraction of two bodies! What a rainbow of imagination, lies, sentiment, and self-deception enclosed it!

We didn't want the war, the others say the same thing—and yet half the world is in it all the same." "But there are more lies told by the other side than by us," say I; "just think of those pamphlets the prisoners have on them, where it says that we eat Belgian children. The fellows who write those lies ought to go out and hang themselves. They are real culprits.

That's how we are! Afraid of our feelings. And when we become aware of them we immediately think we are swindlers.

Vahi ja vaata! Nad ehitavad relvatehaseid, sest nad tahavad rahu; nad ehitavad koonduslaagreid, sest nad armastavad tõde; õiglus on iga erakondliku hulluse kattevari, poliitilised gangsterid on lunastajad, ning vabadus on igasuguse võimuahnuse lipukiri.

There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best - in a way that cost them nothing. And that is why they us down so badly.

Sonderbar, dachte Ravic, daß Blutsauger so gern moralisch werden. Dieser alte Gauner mit der Rosette der Ehrenlegion im Knopfloch wirft mir vor, daß ich ihn ausnütze, anstatt sich zu schämen. Und er glaubt es sogar noch.

up to the belly. When the attack starts I will let myself fall into the water, with my face as deep in the mud as I can keep it without suffocating. I must pretend to be dead. Suddenly

Ko visp?r noz?m? - kr?pt? [..] Kr?pt - cik vulg?rs v?rds, ar ko apz?m?t smalk?ko, gal?jo neapmierin?t?bu, mekl?jumus p?c kaut k? vair?k, arvien vair?k...

How pointless all human thoughts, words and deeds must be, if things like this are possible! Everything must have been fraudulent and pointless if thousands of years of civilization weren't even able to prevent this river of blood, couldn't stop these torture chambers existing in their hundreds of thousands. Only a military hospital can really show you what war is.

Our first experience of heavy artillery fire showed us our mistake, and the view of life that their teaching had given us fell to pieces under that bombardment.