Quotes About Deception

We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008.

On Wall Street, the industry in which I grew up, a culture in which 'my word is my bond' shifted over the past few decades toward one where the big print can say 'Free' while the small print gives the real costs.

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you.

People wanna escape the truth sometimes.

I wanna like Obama, but he's all about the world government, world banking, war, and stuff like that. You know what I'm sayin'? He's a phony.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

It should be clear that modern fractional reserve banking is a shell game, a Ponzi scheme, a fraud in which fake warehouse receipts are issued and circulate as equivalent to the cash supposedly represented by those receipts.

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

All warfare is based on deception.

A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.

The attacks on global warming are no different than the attacks the cigarettes companies used to use to say that cigarettes don't cause cancer.

You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.