Quotes About Deception

Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

It would be nice if you'd stop almost killing me because you don't want to screw other peo­ple.

It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

Sometimes we don't want to accept who we really are, and we lie to each other, to ourselves.

Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.

Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use her compulsion for your own psycho plans.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.