Quotes About Deception

What you see is not real. It is a misinterpretation of our false perceptions.

Religion is a veil that we often use to cover our ugliness.

Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.

The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent.

Alternative facts and fake news are just other names for propaganda

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible, and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

There are many hidden truths behind a lie

Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.

I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed.

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.

There are no true friends in politics.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?