Quotes About Deception

In an evil hour I subscribed to a lie, and now only am I truly miserable

sister or a brother can never, unless indeed such symptoms have been shewn early, suspect the other of fraud or false dealing, when another friend, however strongly he may be attached, may, in spite of himself, be invaded with suspicion. But

The truth always arrive too late because it walks slower than lies. Truth crawls at a snail's pace.

Waar eindigde zijn geloof en waar begonnen de komedie en de berekening?

Sakura: Never figured you for the artistic type. Sai: Looks can be decieving.

I don't understand what's going on, but i'll just pretend that I do.

Looks can be decieving

That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country

It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being. Imitation is something one does to grow and develop. It is not something you use to deceive yourself. You absorb in yourself the things you think have some kind of value, but even if you try to find the meaning about your true self you will not find anything. Because those who cannot accept their real self always fail.

Peace under an illusion is not true peace. It's only meaningful if the real world manages to accomplish it.

If I can just get him in Kotoamatsukami, I can make Lord Fugaku tell everyone the coup is off. And I can make Fugaku himself believe from the bottom of his heart that it was his own idea.

la beauté est une malédiction pour ce monde elle nous empêche de reconnaître qui sont les vrais monstres

La prima mossa è quasi sempre un trucco, è la seconda la più efficace... l'importante è colpire il bersaglio. 

Tous prétendent vrai leur vision de vie mais toute vision peut s'avérer n'être qu'une illusion

la beauté est une malédiction pour ce monde elle nous empêche de reconnaître qui sont les vrais monstres Shikamaru Nara

The Trumpian lie is different. It is the power lie, or the bully lie. It is the lie of the bigger kid who took your hat and is wearing it—while denying that he took it. There is no defense against this lie because the point of the lie is to assert power, to show "I can say what I want when I want to." The power lie conjures a different reality and demands that you choose between your experience and the bully's demands:

One time, Alexander Nikolaevich discovered, Stalin invited an old friend back in Georgia to Moscow for a reunion. They dined and drank—Stalin took pride in his hospitality and his menus, which he personally curated.7 Later the same night, the friend was arrested in his hotel room. He was executed before dawn. This could not be explained with any words or ideas available to man.8

Science gradually yielded to propaganda, and as a result propaganda tended more and more to represent itself as science.

The existence of alternative facts had become policy.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: what do you want?

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

With the red wig and her own work clothes, she thought she cut a pretty fine Black Widow herself.