Quotes About Deception

And people would believe it, thought Hartmann, because people believed what they wanted to believe – that was Goebbels's great insight. They no longer had any need to bother themselves with inconvenient truths. He had given them an excuse not to think.

Some people live their entire life not knowing who they are, others live their life thinking they are something they are not. Only a luck few are blessed enough to find themselves in someone else.

When life looks like easy street there is danger at your door

Two-faced grinfuckers have certain signature moves. They pretend to enthusiastically agree with every decision you make or idea that you have, but rather than telling you when they disagree, they never actually implement the ideas, or do the exact opposite, or intentionally implement the decisions or ideas so badly that failure is inevitable. Then they bad-mouth you and other colleagues behind your backs for your terrible ideas and judgment.

These malicious takers immediately start conniving to exploit people for their own purposes—but back off when they encounter uncooperative and selfish people like themselves.

Hearst was eager to stoke the flames of conflict between Spain and the United States over Cuba and sent Frederick Remington the photographer, who could find no signs of war. In a famous exchange of cables, Hearst responded to Remington, "You provide the pictures; I'll provide the war."10

It's something we've seen more than once: a common thug gets a whiff of politics and next thing you know he's twice the villain he was before.

The presence of absolute truth and objective good demands a moral response to deception and to evil. What kind of God could look at genocide, torture, rape, and sin of any kind without responding in righteousness and holiness? The wrath of God is His proper judicial response to evil as He seeks to direct people toward repentance or (if they fail to respond to Him) to judge them for their corruption.

Someone said, "If the devil can't make you bad, he'll make you busy.

When a Type Number Two performs chip-replacement surgery on your wallet, all he's saying to you is: I meant from the outset to cut off your fingers when you reached for your chips, even though I assured you that was not my intention.

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who just robbed me an hour ago,

He summed up his admiration-tinged condemnation of the Communists in the simple statement: "They lie so truly.

this is the way of the Communists - using good words to do bad things

when Satan was training three apprentice devils. He asked the first one how he proposed to deceive people. "I will tell them there is no God." "That will never work," Satan replied, "for everyone knows there is a God." The second one volunteered that he would tell people there is no hell. "That won't work, either. Everyone knows there must be a hell." Then the third apprentice devil spoke up. "I will tell them there is no hurry.

Don't worry. Don't worry. The Devil does none of these things. He neither smokes nor drinks nor engages in revelry, and yet he is The Devil. --Father Vasiliev, confessor to the Russian Imperial Family

In time, the expression "Potemkin village" came to mean a sham, or something fraudulent, erected or spoken to conceal an unpleasant truth. As such, it became a cliché; now, it is part of the language.

Sometimes," Llry told Rowan, "to feign an opening, is to invite your opponent's disaster.

Examine everything; not all is as it seems or as people tell you.

The term "river voices" was coined by Frank O. Shaw when he and Richard Baldwin camped here in 1932. The men mistook the gurgling sounds made by the Dosewallips for the indistinct murmur of voices in the distance. They looked up, expecting to see a troop of Scouts coming up the trail, only to realize they had been deceived by the river.

Chris was vaguely troubled by the revelation that one of America's closest allies was being deceived by the U.S. Government, but he let the thought slip away and accepted an invitation to go to lunch with some of the other TRW employees assigned to Rhyolite. The

You shouldn't play with fire in your own backyard." He smiled thinly. "Plus, there's a lot of apathy about Africa. Westerners like to say that's not true, but it is. Deception is easier when people don't care.

and he was too dense—and, in recent months, too drunk—to follow Mother into what T.S. Eliot had called, in his poem "Gerontion," "the wilderness of mirrors.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.