Quotes About Deception

keep your quid pro quota shit. I only tol' you about Story because he's dead. You can put me back in

aquella operación, los cajones acabaron en una disposición diferente: la correcta. Bosch estaba convencido de que alguien los había sacado todos para registrarlos por debajo y por detrás y luego los había vuelto a colocar en el lugar equivocado. Después

punji traps. They were dead. Eleanor

Courts across the country had long approved the use of deception and trickery by police in an interview setting with a suspect, holding that an innocent person would see through the deception and not falsely confess to the crime. The interview

MICHAEL CONNELLY TWO KINDS OF TRUTH

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Once again, vague terminology helped conceal what was really going on.

But they're not real now," Wu said. "That's what I'm trying to tell you. There isn't any reality here.

You're lyin' in horseshit," Toad said. "Oh God, it's true.

You said yourself, John, this park is entertainment," Wu said. "And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. Its practitioners aren't saints, they're human beings, and they do what human beings do—lie, cheat, steal from one another, sue, hide data, fake data, overstate their own importance, and denigrate opposing views unfairly. That's human nature. It isn't going to change.

Durante toda tu vida oirás hablar a la gente, y la mayoría de las veces, probablemente el noventa y cinco por ciento de las veces, lo que la gente te diga será falso.

I have to keep reminding myself that almost everybody is always lying.

Mensen zijn dom. Op een trommel slaan om een beer aan het dansen te krijgen, terwijl we de sterren zouden willen ontroeren.

De mess leek eigenlijk meer op een goedkoop visrestaurant dan op een oorlogsonderzeeboot.

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

It happens to all of us, time and time again. Because we've been deluded into thinking we're really one person.

There are many kinds of delusion.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they'll make of you? Maybe you'll help them to persuade people to buy things they don't need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.