Deceit Quotes

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non vegetarian

We have made the Reich by propaganda

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable.

Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism . . . We advance.

Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

Barbara said she knew it was in as soon as she shot it. She's told me a lot of lies over the last four years, but that was the biggest one I've ever heard.

Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Never try to snow a snowman.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

All around me is cowardice and deceit.

A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.

For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

How to achieve such anomalies,
such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies,
if you like,
but lies that are more than literal truth.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.