Quotes About Deception

Imagination is a killer.

There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.

Politics was manipulation. Like a magic show.

A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue.

The whole world worked by subterfuge and the will to believe.

If a story seems moral, do not believe it.

You can hide in someone else's rage - it blinds them

What does it mean when you remember something that you know never happened?

The world had kenneled a vicious lie in my brain…

Besides, it is often wise to conceal one's full capabilities from potential enemies.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish

No, truth never gained anyone anything. All it did was anger those who preferred lies and confusion and backspinning in the hope of making themselves look better.

A man, I'd sometimes thought, who would apologize for the inconvenience as he broke your neck.

On the contrary," Thrawn corrected coolly. "Not only will they fall for it, they'll be utterly destroyed by it. Watch, Captain. And learn.

the constant shower of the sun's mane erases the footprints on thin ice do not fear deception for the world lies atop deception ~Toushiro Hitsugaya

Truth only exists for those who cling to it. Sosuke Aizen

Hearts, you say? You Humans are always so quick to speak of such things. As though you carry your hearts in the very palms of your hands. But this eye of mine perceives all. There is nothing that it overlooks. If this eye cannot see a thing, then it does not exist. That is the assumption under which I have always fought. What is this heart? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?

i am a trickster who doesn't know solitude

I'm a snake. My skin is cold. I have no heart. I slither…looking for prey with the tip of my tongue. I swallow the people I care about whole. That's the kind of creature I am. Don't you remember?

no one in any commercial seems to be unhappy or angry, whatever the circumstances.

We sink ships and try to pretend that they're just ships—things without people in them. It's dishonest, but we do it anyway.

Your Highness, what do you call it when a high-ranking person lies right in your face?" the President asked with a wry smile. "Diplomacy.

Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can?for a time. But not a very long time.

that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.