Deception Quotes

I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

The praises of enemies are always to be suspected. A man of honor will not permit himself to be flattered by them, except when they are given after the cessation of hostilities.

If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Every message in a pay envelope, even if it is the truth, is a command to vote according to the will of the employer. But this propaganda is worse-it is deceit.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

During the intervening time the Japanese Government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

The American people will not be deceived by anyone who attempts to suppress individual liberty under the pretense of patriotism.

It is an old strategy of tyrants to delude their victims into fighting their battles for them.

The majority of white Americans consider themselves sincerely committed to justice for the Negro. They believe that American society is essentially hospitable to fair play and to steady growth toward a middle-class Utopia embodying racial harmony. But unfortunately this is a fantasy of self-deception and comfortable vanity.

A lie cannot live.

The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance, or frozen in a long night, can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where, and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

A friend once said, and I found to be true, that everyday people, they lie to God too, so what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.