Quotes About Deception

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

Lies are considered true. Truth is considered seditious.

After years on a drunken bender, Americans are awakening to lies masked in patriotism and glory.

The ability to amplify lies, to repeat them and have surrogates repeat them in endless loops of news cycles, gives lies and mythical narratives the aura of uncontested truth. We become trapped in the linguistic prison of incessant repetition. We are fed words and phrases like war on terror or pro-life or change, and within these narrow parameters, all complex thought, ambiguity, and self-criticism vanish.

A public that can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction is left to interpret reality through illusion.

Those who manipulate the shadows that dominate our lives are the agents, publicists, marketing departments, promoters, script writers, tel- evision and movie producers, advertisers, video technicians, photogra- phers, bodyguards, wardrobe consultants, fitness trainers, pollsters, public announcers, and television news personalities who create the vast stage for illusion. They are the puppet masters.

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed," Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism.67

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exists. HANNAH ARENDT, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities," Voltaire warned.

Beauty contests are only a mirage where all you have to do is look pretty all the time.

Fame is a mirage.

The angle we give the bathroom mirror is always meant to flatter.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

You look in the mirror, but you don't see what you actually look like.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

Anthony Weiner lied to the country about his sexual misconduct online. He also lied to me.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.

I'm a big believer in confidence, but I think sometimes that can be misleading.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

It's a mistake to think that Dexter is nice.