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Quotes About Deception

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
~ Edmund Burke
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
~ Simone Weil
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
~ Jonathan Swift
We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.
~ Charles Spurgeon
If you add up all the promises any politicians makes, the math doesn't work.
~ Wilbur Ross
After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.
~ Adam Rickitt
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Politicians never keep all their promises.
~ Michael Moore
Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
~ Larry Hogan
It's always been the same from a long time ago, it's people with promises and people dangling carrots and when you're young and impressionable, and ambitious, you want to believe them. I was always lucky because there was always part of me that didn't believe these people.
~ Lisa Stansfield
You may hear the most beautiful things, you may hear promises, you may hear everything you want to hear but if the person you're dating is not following up with their actions then they're just words.
~ Nancy Juvonen
Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
~ Clint Eastwood
Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.
~ Bill Dedman
Everywhere you look, especially on TV, someone is promising to make you rich and famous.
~ Diego Luna
That's really the nature of how cults get you - by starting slow, promising to help you realize your goals.
~ Sarah Edmondson
Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.
~ Michael Leunig
Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
~ Alice Walker
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
We have seen the corrupting effects of a deliberate propaganda campaign driven by fake news.
~ Jimmy Gomez
Half-baked truth is dangerous - be it the propaganda of media or somebody else.
~ Anurag Thakur
Russia has always been involved in propaganda and disinformation.
~ Sebastian Gorka
Incomprehensible messaging is a very important part of Russian propaganda.
~ Masha Gessen
It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?
~ Edd Byrnes
Mr. Trump is a false prophet.
~ Antony Blinken