Quotes About Deception

If you are strong, appear weak. But if you are weak, appear strong.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War.

Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.

He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.

When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

All war is deception.

When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams of trying to deceive or trick him.