Deceit Quotes - Page 22

• All of what the government said is lies upon lies.

  Ahmed Abu Khattala

  Lying, Government, Said

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• I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.

  Clifford Irving

  Lying, Train

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• Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Distrust, Justify

  "Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard".

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• Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed

  Oliver E. Williamson

  Self, Effort, Behaviour

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• We have made the Reich by propaganda

  Joseph Goebbels

  Tyrants, Propaganda, Made

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• The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Peace, War, Patriotic

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

  Gil Courtemanche

  Powerful, Thinking, Propaganda

  Gil Courtemanche (2007). “A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali”, p.178, Vintage

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• Yet still we hug the dear deceit.

  Nathaniel Cotton

  Hug, Dear, Stills

  Nathaniel Cotton (1791). “Various Pieces in Verse and Prose: Many of which Were Never Before Published”, p.166

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• For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Dark, Night

  Sonnet 147

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Hands, Fists, Sides

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give.

  John Dryden

  Life, Running, Lying

  'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1

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• And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.

  Julian Assange

  Hero, Political, World

  Official Statement by Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy, www.wikileaks.org. August 19, 2012.

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• Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.

  Albert Pike

  Mean, Men, Two

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.

  Harry Mulisch

  Mother, Children, War

  Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• 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.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Reality, Men, Purpose

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• As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.

  Keith Olbermann

  Good Night, War, Party

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• Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

  John Burroughs

  Lying, Character, Fate

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• I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.

  Erin Brockovich

  Real, Health, Safety

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• Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit! Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Dream, Spiritual, Emotional

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• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Knives, Simplicity

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• To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows that.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

  "Parenting For Everyone" by Simon Soloveychik, (Book 2 part 3, ch. 10), 1977-1986.

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• Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture. When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.

  Rick Santorum

  Lying, Boston, America

  "Fishers of Men". www.catholic.org.

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• One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Liars, Lying, Philosophical

  "The Prince".

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• I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

  Mark Burnett

  Lying, Heart, Focus

  Mark Burnett (2001). “Dare to Succeed: How to Survive and Thrive in the Game of Life”, Hyperion

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• They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

  Jose Gonzalez

  Lying, Nowhere To Go, Building

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