Quotes and Sayings About Deception
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Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
-- Aaron Hill -
Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.
-- Ala Bashir -
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
-- Albert Einstein -
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
-- Anais Nin -
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.
-- Andrew Bird -
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.
-- Arthur Helps -
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
-- B. C. Forbes -
Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many of his colleagues to this condition. To surmise was not to conquer, of course; he was as helpless as ever but there was a dim liberation in seeing how he had been lied to, and he felt that at least he could take one thing from the terrible years through which he had come: he was free of self-delusion.
-- Barry N. Malzberg -
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.
-- Ben Macintyre -
Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.
-- Ben Macintyre -
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.
-- Bernard Katz -
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.
-- Bhikkhu Analayo -
The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.
-- Blaise Pascal -
All martial arts is simply an honest expression of one's body - with a lot of deception in between.
-- Bruce Lee -
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.
-- C. L. R. James -
To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
-- Cardinal Richelieu -
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
-- Carl Sagan
