Quotes About Deception

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

Rich people are tested C-Virus positive only till the fee is given by them for their business promotion and then they are declared in news as tested negative.

Tobacco is the enemy, disguised as a friend, and if you are to win the war you must get to know your enemy.

S'en est allée l'amante Au village voisin malgré la pluie Sans son amant s'en est allée l'amante Pour danser avec un autre que lui Les femmes mentent mentent

Rien n'est plus trompeur qu'une photo : on croit fixer un moment heureux pour l'éternité alors qu'on ne crée que de la nostalgie

Rien n'est plus trompeur qu'une photo. On croit fixer un moment heureux pour l' éternité alors qu'on ne crée que de la nostalgie. On appuie sur le déclencheur, et hop, une seconde plus tard, l'instant à disparu.

Ništa ne može da prevari više nego fotografija: verujemo da smo ovekove?ili jedan sre?an trenutak, ali smo samo stvorili nostalgiju.

En prétendant raconter la vie dans vos romans, vous mentez. La vie est trop complexe pour être mise équation ou pour se laisser enfermer dans les pages d'un livre. Elle est plus forte que les maths ou que la fiction. Le roman, c'est de la fiction. Et la fiction, c'est techniquement du mensonge.

Dentro de nosotros habitaba un pequeño Goebbels que nos dictaba la forma más apropiada de reelaborar la verdad para mantener incólume tu aureola de prohombre. Éramos tus publirrelacionistas.

culpa por ser una burguesa enclaustrada en una realidad más falsa que el decorado de una telenovela...

Mientras don Julio estaba en el jiji-jajá con los mentados representantes del secretario de Gobernación, saboreando exquisitos platillos provenzales en salsa de puterías, la policía alistaba una colección de dóbermans y de pastores belgas prestos a arrancarles los huevos a los reos.

Son ciertas las mentiras que ha dicho el que dice la verdad.

All belief systems are elaborate fabrications, if logic is followed out to the end.

All the words of love would turn into weapons against the ones they were supposed to comfort.

Quizá la culpa no era suya sino de la condición misma del tiempo, de los días, que se sucedían a un ritmo abúlico y discreto, e inesperadamente le caían encima convertidos en voluminosas décadas: un tiempo homogéneo, sin puertas ni límites palpables, en el que la adolescencia se encontraba a segundos de la vejez; un tiempo engañoso que sólo daba la cara cuando uno se detenía a reflexionar en él.

By deceiving Drona, Yudhishthira corrupts his teacher's relationship with the world. So do we every time we lie - we corrupt the 'other' in the same way.

I have learned that the Mahabharata is about the way we deceive ourselves, how we are false to others, how we oppress fellow human beings, and how deeply unjust we are in our day-to-day lives. But is this moral blindness an intractable human condition, or can we change it? Some of our misery is the result of the way the state also treats us, and can we redesign our institutions to have a more sympathetic government?

man lies to himself a lot.

One cannot break one's chains when there are no chains to be seen. One's imprisonment is therefore organized as a perfectly ordinary, not over-comfortable form of daily life. Everything looks as if it were made of solid, lasting stuff. But on the contrary it is a life in which one is falling towards an abyss. It isn't visible. But if one closes one's eyes, one can hear its rush and roar.

I never trust mere appearance - one's senses offer such an insecure guarantee of abstract perception. - What's The Use of White Dog Shit?

We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.

for the rival candidate, an effort must be made to destroy his chance by establishing by dint of affirmation, repetition, and contagion that he is an arrant scoundrel, and that it is a matter of common knowledge that he has been guilty of several crimes.

Les foules n'ont jamais eu soif de vérités. Devant les évidences qui leur déplaisent, elles se détournent, préférant déifier l'erreur, si l'erreur les séduit. Qui sait les illusionner est aisément leur maître; qui tente de les désillusionner est toujours leur victime.