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Quotes About Deception

For the Love of Dying The tortures of hell are stern, their fires burn fiercely. Yet vultures turn against the air more beautifully than seagulls float downwind in cool sunlight, or fans in asylums spin a loom of fate for hope which never ventured up so high as life's deception, astride the vulture's flight. If death can fly, just for the love of flying, what might not life do, for the love of dying?
~ Malcolm Lowry
Most Leadership is Greedership dressed up in sheeps' clothing pretending to care for humanity.
~ Tony Dovale
No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend.
~ Auliq Ice
Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Success in politics is the art of the timely lie.
~ Marty Rubin
Any success against a false target is a false victory.
~ Mike Klepper
Some people are just like snake, they will never understand your love.
~ Raaz Ojha
Success makes me happy, but it doesn't give me peace. Because I do believe that success is not enough for our cause. We are born to struggle and nothing must deceive us.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.
~ Lady Marguerite Blessington
If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.
~ Adolf Hitler
The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.
~ Martha Stout
God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.
~ Louis de Bernieres
I couldn't decide what kind of person she was, whether she was one of those insects that look exactly like wasps but aren't . . . I just wanted to know if she would sting.
~ Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.
~ Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.
~ Bruce Lee
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.
~ Ron Dart
Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.
~ Keith Henson
There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.
~ Max Anders
Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.
~ Kevin Mitnick
Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.
~ Amitav Ghosh
I had thought you were a better man, Mr Reid, a man of your word, but I see that you are nothing but a paltry hommelette.' 'An omelette?' 'Yes, your word is not worth a dam.
~ Amitav Ghosh
and that's why it's so hard for them when they discover that this equality they've been told about is a carrot on a stick – something that's dangled in front of their noses to keep them going, but always kept just out of reach.
~ Amitav Ghosh