Quotes About Deception

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

The 3-D effects in "Star Wars" are so realistic, you can actually see George Lucas reaching from the screen and taking the money from your wallet.

In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush 'lied us into war in Iraq.'

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.

A man's idee in a card game is war

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

Keep in mind that the Iraqis are not telling us anything we don't already know or can't prove. This is what makes this whole inspection process and all the rigmarole surrounding it a total farce.

This ain't a war... It's a goddam whorehouse.

Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

I'm glad to be part of the war on sadness. I'm a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

The closer one gets to elections or wars, the further one gets from the truth.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.