Deceit Quotes - Page 23

• An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Cheating, Lying, Character

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• Low on his funeral couch he lies!

  Thomas Gray

  Lying, Funeral, Lows

  1757 The Bard. A Pindaric Ode, l.63-6.

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• I have spoken to Paul and he is now talking to his family and seeing where his future lies, whether it be here or back in Scotland, said Worthington. Obviously I'm delighted with the way he played today and also the way he performed at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday when he only knew he would be playing 15 minutes before the game.

  Nigel Worthington

  Lying, Games, Scotland

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• Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.

  Geoffrey B. Wilson

  Prayer, Hate, Hypocrisy

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• Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

  William Blake

  Christian, Lying, Building Up

  William Blake, Morton D. Paley (1998). “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion”, p.258, Princeton University Press

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• No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Children, Father

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1825). “The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.108

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• One of the predictions that I was the first to make is now materializing, and that prediction was that Obama isn't going away. That Obama is going to hang around Washington and do everything he can to undermine the next president, particularly if and when the next president tries to unravel any of the gigantic web of deceit and debauchery that Obama has implemented as president.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ifs And, Going Away, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Lying, People, Machines

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lying, Lust, Pleasure

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.101, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

  Derrick Jensen

  Lying, Way, Impossibility

  Derrick Jensen (2006). “Endgame”, p.404, Seven Stories Press

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• I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.

  Dave Collins

  Lying, People, Innocent

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• We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.

  Chris Christie

  America, Needs, Demand

  The Republican National Convention Speech in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• Authenticity is fundamental, more fundamental than spiritual enlightenment. Without authenticity, no genuine spiritual enlightenment is possible. Authenticity is the state of being committed to truth. Truth is simple. And no matter how simply a truth is stated, only those who have walked the path of understanding and evolution on their own can know and understand it authentically. The path of truth is the path least traveled. Authenticity is the clarity of being in which there is no self-deceit.

  Yasuhiko Kimura

  Spiritual, Simple, Self

  Source: evolutionarymystic.wordpress.com

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• I'm trying to make people more alert that mere acceptance isn't a good enough indicator that something is ethical. You actually need to stop and think. Acceptance on the basis of ignorance or deceit is not the same thing as the acceptance on the basis of ongoing vigorous democratic debate.

  Sheila Jasanoff

  Ignorance, Acceptance, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Honesty, Lying, Believe

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• The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Tourists, Needs, Steps

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• I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain a human life forever: the deceit of hate on hearsay - hating an enemy one doesn't know.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Hate, War, Play

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• People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Effort, Seeing

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• There is no end to the deceits of the past.

  Vernon Lee

  Past, Ends

  Vernon Lee (1908). “Limbo, and Other Essays: To which is Now Added, Ariadne in Mantua”

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.

  Wayne LaPierre

  People, Darkness, Despair

  "GOP hopefuls couldn't stop talking about Hillary Clinton at this NRA event" by Erik Schelzig, www.businessinsider.com. April 11, 2015.

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• Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Distrust, Justify

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• The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, War, Iraq

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• How people see the world is often a reflection of how they see themselves. If they think that the world is just a cesspool of lies and deceit, then they themselves may be full of lies and deceit. Watch out for those people who are always telling you just how corrupt the rest of the world is. As the saying goes, 'It takes one to know one.'

  David J. Lieberman

  Lying, Reflection, Thinking

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• The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Primaries, Values

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• There are also many instances where people hostile to the Soviet state are attempting by means of deceit and provocation to poison the minds of our citizens and compel them to believe in monstrous lies.

  Filipp Golikov

  Lying, Believe, Mean

  "Behind the Iron Curtain". Book by George Moorad, 1946.

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