Quotes About Deception

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, This is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, Cause almost everything that I was always ever told was a lie...

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied -- prevails. And that is how we know the Drama is done.

The worst thing about being lied to, is realizing they don't think you're worth the truth.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.