Quotes About Deception

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping".

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.

Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: What kind of peace?

Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.

Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.