Quotes About Deception

Propaganda is only successful when it is in harmony with something in the patient: his desire for an immortal soul, for health, for the greatness of his nation, or what not. Where there is no such fundamental reason for acquiescence, the assertions of authority are viewed with cynical scepticism. One of the advantages of democracy, from the governmental point of view, is that it makes the average citizen easier to deceive, since he regards the government as his government.

Domestic animals expect food when they see the person who usually feeds them. We know that all these rather crude expectations of uniformity are liable to be misleading. The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

Me temo que se está acabando la época de la gente bien; dos cosas la matan: la primera es la creencia de que no hay peligro en ser feliz con tal que no se haga daño a nadie; la segunda es la aversión a la farsa, aversión tanto estética como moral.

When we see what looks like our best friend approaching us, we shall have no reason to suppose that his body is not inhabited by the mind of our worst enemy or of some total stranger. All

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.

Plato possessed the art to dress up illiberal suggestions in such a way that they deceived future ages, which admired the Republic without ever becoming aware of what was involved in its proposals.

our hostess backed out of the room, grinning vapidly. She had long since forgotten the meaning of a smile, but the physical ability to make the gesture remained. I felt that the grin...would shatter if it were touched and fall to the floor in pieces.

Charles Spurgeon's words: "You may conceal your infirmity, even from your dearest friend, but you will not conceal it from your worst enemy.

If we can come up with a God we can fully explain, we have come up with a different God from the Bible's. We must beware of recreating an image of God that makes us feel better. Of this I'm certain: If in our pursuit of greater knowledge God seems to have gotten smaller, we have been deceived.

we have received Christ as our Savior, Satan is forced to work from the outside rather than the inside. Thus, he manipulates outside influences to affect the inside decision-makers of the heart and mind.

The great dragon was thrown out— the ancient serpent … the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. Revelation 12:9

Satan is a planner and a user. He seeks opportunities to use people to fulfill his plan.

Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but faithful people are His delight. Proverbs 12:22

It is foolish to spread a net where any bird can see it, but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives. Proverbs 1:17–18

Isaac answered Esau: "Look, I have made him a master over you… . What then can I do for you, my son?" Genesis 27:37

If we say, "We have fellowship with Him," and walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth. 1 John 1:6

When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars. John 8:44

So either Christ can satisfy us and meet our deepest needs, or God's Word is deceptive.

I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter. I didn't know that they had devised plots against me. Jeremiah 11:19

Of this I'm certain: If in our pursuit of greater knowledge God seems to have gotten smaller, we have been deceived.

When they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word sown in them. Mark 4:15

If in our pursuit of knowledge God seems to have gotten smaller, we have been deceived.

Satan is an opportunist.

All the enemy has to do to spread a lie is to twist the truth. Stay alert and open-minded. His Word is alive!