Quotes About Deception

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.

A girl can have the face of an angel but have a horrid sort of heart.

Soon the Boggy Mun would open up shop. I wore no cloak and had no pockets. I carried my knife and salt in a basket. Little Red Riding Hood, skipping off into the woods. And whom will she meet? Why, her own self, of course: the wolf.

I hope you don't mind my joining you," said Leanne. I minded. After all, she'd tried to kill me. A girl in a novel would say it was hard to believe, but it wasn't.

For four years I have been wearing blinders. I thought all this time I walked a path of cobblestones, and it turns out to have been an avenue of stars! For four years, my head has been caught in a box. Its sides were painted with pleasant enough scenes, but that I should have thought this was the world!

We know our own inner states imperfectly and often mislead both ourselves and those around us. We're masters of fake happiness, suppressed fear, and misguided love.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder.

Let us be honest, the colonist knows perfectly well that no jargon is a substitute for reality.

Resorting to technical language means you are determined to treat the masses as uninitiated. Such language is a poor front for the lecturer's intent to deceive the people and leave them on the sidelines. Language's endeavor to confuse is a mask behind which looms an even greater undertaking to dispossess. The intention is to strip the people of their possessions as well as their sovereignty. You can explain anything to the people provided you really want them to understand.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Truth is a great flirt.

The team had the hardest time hacking into the server of the J-2, the Joint Staff's intelligence directorate. Finally, one of the team members simply called the J-2's office and said that he was with the Pentagon's IT department, that there were some technical problems, and that he needed to reset all the passwords. The person answering the phone gave him the existing password without hesitating. The Red Team broke in.

That is such a lie, and by our friend, Mr. Miranda, who has been lying to us since we hired him…

Do you know why empires fall? Because they can no longer believe their own lies.

The notion that the lobby at Langley is choked with the corpses of former agents gunned down by their own colleagues at the behest of genocidal directors on the top floor is amusing but wholly unreal.

Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth

It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.

While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without them.

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

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