Quotes About Deception

One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who simply act like lions are stupid.

He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss }

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

it is not only he who speaks contrary to what he knows who lies, but even more he who speaks contrary to what he does not know

More troubling still had been the sickening revelation, in April 1943, that more than twenty thousand Polish officers, police officers, and members of the intelligentsia had, on Stalin's orders, been murdered in cold blood by Soviet occupation forces in 1940, during the time of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. That disclosure — the decomposing Polish bodies unearthed by the Germans in the Katyn forest near the Russian city of Smolensk, but the Soviets denying culpability

Zincirlerini k?ran kiÅŸi bir filozof gibidir. GörünüÅŸlerin ötesini görür. S?radan bir insan gerçeklik hakk?nda az fikre sahiptir, çünkü onu derinlemesine düÅŸünmemektense, hemen önünde duran ÅŸeye bakmaktan hoÅŸnuttur. Ne var ki görünüÅŸler aldat?c?d?r. Gördükler, gölgelerdir, gerçeklik deÄŸil.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

If the people believe there's an imaginary river out there, you don't tell them there's no river there. You build an imaginary bridge over the imaginary river

What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.

Was this man the Messiah whom God had promised him or wasn't he? All the miracles he performed could also be performed by Satan, who could even resurrect the dead. The miracles therefore did not give the rabbi sufficient basis to pass judgment; nor did the prophecies. Satan was a sly and exceedingly powerful archangel. In order to deceive mankind he was capable of making his words and actions fit the holy prophecies to perfection.

Después de todo, ¿qué es una mentira? No es sino la verdad enmascarada», escribió Byron.

The picture of the world that's presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies. It's all been a marvellous success from the point of view in deterring the threat of democracy, achieved under conditions of freedom, which is extremely interesting.

Beware of the people of power, and avarice, and wealth. Because the more intelligent they are, the better they'll be at distorting reality and convincing us that what's good for them is good for the world when it's just the opposite.

It takes a phrase to produce a lie and ten minutes to decode it.

Then he quotes Hannah Arendt from her book The Origins of Totalitarianism: "The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies with 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" (quoted in Hedges 2017).

In a democratic society, we, the intelligent minority, have the duty of directing the "ignorant and stupid" masses to what we decide are proper goals, using whatever deception is required. All for their own good.

Most people are not liars. They can't tolerate too much cognitive dissonance. I don't want to deny that there are outright liars, just brazen propagandists. You can find them in journalism and in the academic professions as well. But I don't think that's the norm. The norm is obedience, adoption of uncritical attitudes, taking the easy path of self-deception.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

I think I was so entranced with being a couple that I didn't even notice that the person I thought I was a couple with thought he was a couple with someone else.

it takes two people to hurt you," I said. "The one who does it and the one who tells you.

once you find out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.