Chicanery Quotes:

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

- John Adams

source: "A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law" by John Adams, teachingamericanhistory.org. 1765.

topic: Names, Hypocrisy, Suffering, Pretense, Different Names

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

- John Adams

source: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Lester Jesse Cappon, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson letters: the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”, The University of North Carolina Press

topic: Abuse, Usual, Goes On, Chicanery, Public Affairs

We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become politicians; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly out-numbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off behind the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare.

- T. H. White

topic: Wise, Philosophy, Optimistic, Chicanery

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

- John Adams

topic: Party, Government, Political, Factions, Sophistry

The press of this countrty is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated by the wealthy few of the country that it cannot be depended upon to give the great mass of the people the correct information concerning political, economical, and social subjects which it is necessary that the mass of people shall have, in order that they shall vote and in all ways act in the best way to protect themselves from the brutal force and chicanery of the ruling and employing class.

- E. W. Scripps

topic: Country, Order, Class, Chicanery

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

- Ouida

source: Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.149, Ouida

topic: Vices, Innocence, Kind, Chicanery

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

- William Whipple

topic: Sorry, Apology, Long, I Am Sorry, Chicanery

Its mostly the financial chicanery thats going on. People are saying What kind of trust can we put in this market?

- Mike Farrell

topic: People, Kind, Financial, Chicanery

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

- David Remnick

source: "David Remnick Looks Back On Tough Decisions As 'The New Yorker' Turns 90". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 18, 2015.

topic: Pressure, Journalism, Kind, Chicanery

I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2027, Manonmani Publishers

topic: Dream, Hate, Book, Chicanery, Falseness

A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

- Ouida

topic: Vices, New Life, Lessons, Chicanery, Hard Lessons

[The Republican Party] for example, they do run the House of Representatives, they're a majority there, and it's the House that is essentially sending the government into shutdown and maybe default. But they won the majority of seats there because of various kinds of chicanery. They got a minority of the votes, but a majority of the seats, and they're using them to press forward an agenda which is extremely harmful to the public.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Running, Party, Government, Chicanery, House Of Representatives