Quotes About Deception

We have been told the lie ever since we can remember: human beings are basically nice and good. Everyone is born equal and innocent and self-sufficient. The world is a pleasant, harmless place. We are born free. If we are in chains now, it is someone's fault, and we can correct it with just a little more intelligence or effort or time.

The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass.

It is wicked to tell a person a lie about God because, if we come to believe the wrong things about God, we will think the wrong things about ourselves, and we will live meanly or badly.

21-23 Oh! Can you believe it? The chaste city has become a whore! She was once all justice, everyone living as good neighbors, And now they're all at one another's throats. Your coins are all counterfeits. Your wine is watered down. Your leaders are turncoats who keep company with crooks. They sell themselves to the highest bidder and grab anything not nailed down. They never stand up for the homeless, never stick up for the defenseless.

As aparências enganam: a oração nunca é a primeira palavra, mas sempre a segunda. Deus tem a primeira palavra. A oração é uma fala que responde; ela não é primariamente "petição", mas "resposta".

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

I hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

There had, of course, been no golden-haired boys; there hadn't been any boys at all. What there had been was a leper colony, run by the Brothers of Saint Patrick, a group of Irish missionaries to whom the crows had been sent.

To this largesse had been added waist-length golden, curling hair which, had she chosen to sit on a rock brushing it, must have sent every sailor within miles plunging to his doom.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

according to Lodge, were guilty of far worse. The war lovers had exaggerated Spanish cruelty in order to get their war, and now they covered up the abuses of American troops.

Great illusions will always look real, but even that cannot escape the truth that comes with time. Time will tell.

Pretty on the surface and fucking scary underneath.

Now are you going to come out and let us help you or not?" "Forget it. I know what your idea of help is—both of you skewering me at once. I'm not about to become a sexual shish-ka-bob for the rest of my life just because I ate the wrong fruit by mistake." "It

I did my best to hide by changing my name many times. But I was captured by the Chinese police. But because my Chinese was so good, they thought I was Chinese and released me. That was a miracle.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

The 'free market' is a creed that stirs up near religious devotion among its believers. It is in fact a con, a myth, a great deception.

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.