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.

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

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

We have made the Reich by propaganda

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

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.

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

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

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.