Quotes About Deception

When we make ourselves high priests of art we deceive ourselves again, art is like a genie. It is more powerful than ourselves, but only by virtue of ourselves does it exist and create. Like a genie it has no will of its own, and is, even somewhat stupid; but by our will it moves to build our gleaming palaces and provide a mistress for the palace, which is most important. The high priest is a cultist, who worships the genie that someone else has invoked.

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

John Barleycorn makes his appeal to weakness and failure, to weariness and exhaustion. He is the easy way out. And he is lying all the time. He offers false strength to the body, false elevation to the spirit, making things seem what they are not and vastly fairer than what they are.

Such verdicts are crimes against truth. The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

There are folks out there, especially during the political season, that'll try to twist and turn economic statistics for their own personal benefit, to pick and choose talking points in order to tear Montana's progress down.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open the gate, thus stirring up the Church militant.

Disinformation is more than just lying: it's the denial and twisting of reality in order to present some desired image to the rest of the world.

Twitter is the Devil's playground.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

There are not two sides to a story when one side is a lie. Journalists - and the rest of us - must stop giving equal time to things that don't have an opposing side.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

Romantic love is a trap designed to get two people to overlook each other's faults long enough to get some babymaking done. It generally only lasts for a few years at most.

The most interesting conversation is not about why Donald Trump lies. Many public figures lie, and he's only a severe example of a common type. The interesting conversation concerns how we come to accept those lies.

We can't have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That's crazy. You can't have more types of fake news than real news. That's allowing public deception to go unchecked. That's crazy.

There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a matrix, and then there are the people who buy it lock, stock and barrel.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.

I'm great at fake typing but in real life terrible.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.