Quotes About Deception

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

We have to see that the human person needs the infinite. If God's not there, if the infinite isn't available, the human person creates its own paradises, giving the appearance of 'infinitude' that can only be a lie.

It happened with me in the past that I was not well trained for a reason, like an injury, and I started talking a lot to fool myself, to show everyone that I'm fine, but I was not.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

You don't want to be innocent in the world of 'Game of Thrones.'

I like being innocent, but know now when I am being taken for a ride.

I'm not a believer in 'what you don't know won't hurt you,' unless it's innocent.

There is a cheat inside everyone.

We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.

You don't need a brilliant sleuth like Sherlock Holmes to figure out that the claims of Trump-Russia collusion were false. The bumbling Inspector Clouseau could have figured it out.

If you go through my Instagram feed, it's like a flip book of me thinking I'm way more attractive than I am. It's nauseating.

In high school, getting recruited, usually guys have Twitters and Instagrams so that they can talk to coaches. I didn't have Twitter. All I had was Instagram. So someone created a fake Twitter account about me, and it was the most ridiculous stuff that you could ever think about.

Instagram is kind of a big lie at the end of the day.

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

Ever since I was a kid and watched magicians on stage, like David Copperfield or Siegfried and Roy, I instantly knew how they did everything. In my head, it just all worked.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

There's no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity, because you are lying about it.

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

It can be hard to say if someone has a deliberate intent to defraud or if they are just really, really bad at their business. But even if people are unpublishable, it doesn't mean they should be ripped off.

Clintons lie with facility, intent, and design.

Anyone can lie. One need only have the requisite intention - in other words, to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, by contrast, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.