Quotes About Deception

Today's so-called cloud isn't really a cloud at all. It's a bunch of corporate dirigibles painted to look like clouds. You can tell they're fake because they all have logos on them. The real cloud wouldn't have a logo. Once

Traduttore, traditore.

How sad that so much is judged on appearance, rather than substance.

Donald Crowhurst had an extraordinary talent for making people believe him. His power lay in the fact that he had completely convinced himself.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Lies had always been an integral part of Nazi propaganda. Whether he was convinced that lies were justified by the greater ends they served or whether he had become incapable through his years of power and his closeness to Hitler of separating wish from sober calculation, falsehood is surely indivisible.

Munich was the final turning point for Hitler. He had met the leaders of the western democracies and made monkeys of them. He had proved that tactics of deception, threat and histrionics worked at the highest levels of European diplomacy. His will had broken the bonds of reality; everything was possible.

I no longer believe in love," she said bitterly. "When people claim to have lost their heart, it's usually only their wits that have vanished.

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.

Todos mis problemas surgen de creer cosas que sé que no son ciertas.

The fact that you have never betrayed my teachings, and the fact that you swear never to betray them: this is to betray them already.

Here we see how the barrier between Adam and Eve and the tree creates an excessive drive by making the fruit of the tree into something excessively desired. While Adam and Eve can try to content themselves with substitute objects, they remain enchanted by the illusion of what lies out of reach.

Por qué? No puedes tener la paz verdadera del reino de Cristo con mentiras o fingimientos.

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

mundo quiere ser engañado".

Qué somos, en definitiva, sin nuestras mentiras?

Sie hat nie herausgefunden, ob der Jäger sie verraten hat oder sie sich selbst.

Judas' hair has a copperish hue, the artist picking up on a long tradition in Christianity of portraying him as a red-head which, according to medieval writers, was the sure sign of a moral degenerate. Shakespeare, in As You Like It, likens Orlando's hair to Judas' red mop, describing it as 'the dissembling colour' and one that reveals 'a deceiver from head to toe'.

Because Judas is the only one of the twelve with two names, Judas and Iscariot, and that second name most obviously suggests he had come from afar to the Galilean hills, he is implicitly being cast from the very start as the outsider. That

she married a laborer named Charles Freeman and then promptly poisoned him and her son for the twenty-pound payout from a burial club she had enrolled them

If you can see it, chances are it doesn't exist.

Realist saboteurs do not, as a rule, enjoy long careers. Everyone gets caught eventually.