Quotes About Deception

Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries." I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the Lord's work and all.

Mila was right. This case was fishy. In fact, it smelled like Sea World.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

[Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do — the same physical methods, the same psychological methods — and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.

Ben Franklin said it well: "Quacks are the greatest liars in the world, except their patients.

Morgan's studies show that the use of the SERE simulated torture techniques impairs memory and prompts inaccurate answers from those subjected to the tactics. Mitchell and Jessen's methods, Morgan said, create a mental state that makes it difficult to remember information accurately—making the credibility of all statements suspect.

You can be seduced to do this," Zimbardo added. "It's easy for people to delude themselves into thinking that they will be the ones who will do it the right way. Self-delusion is a powerful force for evil.

Never trust those who would be your shield. They feed on your ignorance and darkness. It is best to look at things directly and be unafraid.

Bitter thoughts swept through him. That face had been called many names over the centuries, worn many identities. But after two millennia he had returned to the one his mother had given him. Judas Iscariot.

We need religion, government, and laws to force a level of control over our baser natures. I intend to strip away the disease that is intelligence, to rip away the deception that allows humanity to believe itself mightier and more deserving of this planet.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

A single spear-phishing email carrying a slightly altered malware can bypass multi-million dollar enterprise security solutions if an adversary deceives a cyber-hygienically apathetic employee into opening the attachment or clicking a malicious link and thereby compromising the entire network.

Soothsayer's warning to Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, "If thou dost play with him at any game, / Thou art sure to lose" (2.3.26–27)

Women may be able to fake orgasms, but men can fake whole relationships.

Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little.

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself. It

I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.

Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little. How sad.

When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners.

file. "James Miller. We'll need to determine if he is corrupt, or merely the unwitting tool of others.

I am not a part of this home any longer. I am a tiny thing created by indifferent scientists. I am an experiment, a mechanical bee placed near the hive. The real bees were happy being bees until I came along and gave them all the false information that destroyed their little lives.

You can fool too many people, too much of the time.

I am not unused to being confronted with my ow lies, but those of others never fail to throw me for a loop.