Quotes About Deception

she spent a lot of time convincing herself that what you saw, even what you felt, had an unreliable relationship to what was actually there. What was actually there was reality, regardless of whether you saw it or how you felt about it.

A person had to live with his lies. That was what they cost.

Vera watched him walk to his car, the champagne in one hand, the flowers in the other. Thought that if she'd been married to someone like Joe Ashworth, she'd be so bored she'd commit murder herself.

The media lie about everything, but immigration constitutes their finest hour of collective lying. They know their ideas on the topic are not popular.

Although we've been authoritatively informed that a majority of Americans support a "pathway to citizenship," approximately five hundred times in the last two years alone, according to a quick Nexis search,18 that is a lie. This is part of the media's campaign to convince Americans they're nuts for preferring not to turn America into Mexico. Polls are irrelevant if you lie to the people being polled.

Ironically, Democrats carrying on about how Republicans had engaged in dirty tricks to steal the 1980 election was a dirty trick to steal the 1992 election. The

Dawn be so rotten?

A total prohibition against lying is also ethically incoherent in anyone but a true pacifist.

toda mentira nos persigue en el futuro.

Las mentiras de los poderosos nos hacen desconfiar de gobiernos y grandes empresas.

Las mentiras de los teóricos de la conspiración suscitan dudas sobre la honradez de quienes denuncian injusticias, aun cuando estén diciendo la verdad.

Las mentiras son el equivalente social de los residuos tóxicos: todo el mundo es un potencial damnificado por su propagación.

If lying seems the only option, given your fear or physical limitations, it clearly shifts the burden of combating evil onto others.

It is simply astonishing how people destroy their marriages, careers, and reputations by saying one thing and doing another.

Mentir es alzar una frontera entre la verdad en la que vivimos y la percepción que los demás tienen de nosotros.

The question is, do you really want to know what other people think about you—about your talents and prospects—or do you want to be deceived about all that?

It is time we recognized that all reasonable men and women have a common enemy. It is an enemy so near to us, and so deceptive, that we keep its counsel even as it threatens to destroy the very possibility of human happiness. Our enemy is nothing other than faith itself.

Mentir es confundir intencionadamente a los demás cuando esperan recibir una comunicación honesta.

One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts you at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless.

came away convinced that lying, even about the smallest matters, needlessly

By lying, we deny our friends access to reality9—and their resulting ignorance often harms them in ways we did not anticipate. Our friends may act on our falsehoods, or fail to solve problems that could have been solved only on the basis of good information. Rather often, to lie is to infringe on the freedom of those we care about.

Funny or not, the story reveals something distasteful about Sita: She will lie when it suits her needs.

Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

I came away convinced that lying, even about the smallest matters, needlessly damages personal relationships and public trust.