Deception Quotes - Page 23

• It is impossible not to bestow the imputation of deliberate imposture and deception upon the gross pretense of a similitude between a king of Great Britain and a magistrate of the character marked out for that of the President of the United States. It is still more impossible to withhold that imputation from the rash and barefaced expedients which have been employed to give success to the attempted imposition.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Kings, Character, Giving

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• For the strategies of deception are concerned with deceiving an opponent through the logistics of perception. But these strategies are not merely aimed at the Serbs or the Iraqis but also at all those who might support [Slobodan] Milosevic or Saddam Hussein.

  Paul Virilio

  Support, Perception, Might

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• For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.

  Paul Virilio

  Military, Sun, Force

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• Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has brilliantly exposed the exaggerated claims and deceptions that have persisted in standard textbook discussions of biological origins for many decades, in spite of contrary evidence. these claims have been so often repeated that they seem unassailable - that is, until one reads Wells's book.

  Dean H. Kenyon

  Book, Icons, Community

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• Someone who lies for you will also lie to you. The occasional benefit your business may gain from a successful deception or concealment is always outweighed by the encouragement it provides to those willing to risk trust for success.

  Michael Josephson

  Encouragement, Lying, Successful

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• If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.

  Seth

  Life, Work, Team

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• The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Worship, False Gods

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• The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Death, Children, Superstitions

  Sadegh Hedayat (2010). “The Blind Owl”, p.56, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.

  John Calvin

  Fall, Men, Practice

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.354, Ravenio Books

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• Understand now what lying is. Any species of designed deception. If the deception is not designed it is not lying. But if you design to make an impression contrary to the naked truth, you lie.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Lying, Design, Naked

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.40

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• The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

  Ben Macintyre

  Agents, Secrecy, Crosses

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• Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view. You look at life's difficulties and tests as God looks at them. You look at family life and child rearing as God looks at them. You interpret current events as God would interpret them. You see the truth even though all around you are deception and lies.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Children, Lying, Views

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Great Days with the Great Lives: Daily Insight from Great Lives of the Bible”, p.270, Thomas Nelson

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• Fearful leaders side-step issues instead of dealing with them, cover up mistakes instead of owning up to mistakes; they skulk back into the shadows and hope that the crisis-whatever it is-will somehow blow over instead of facing their fears. Worse, they resort to lies and deception to cover up the truth.

  Leon F. "Lee" Ellis

  Mistake, Lying, Blow

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• Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Indulge In, Common

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.28, Book Tree

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• If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.

  Robert Trivers

  Strong, Communication, Animal

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• When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

  Mardy Grothe

  Self, Deceiving, Self Deception

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• Deception is everywhere.

  Jim Sanborn

  "Questions for Kryptos' Creator". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. January 20, 2005.

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• Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to be lies and deception. You can believe it's the truth only after you question, exhaust every avenue, and find that their story checks out. If you're a patriot, it's your duty to always question your government anyway, at every turn. A patriot is loyal to his country and his countrymen, not his government.

  Derek R. Audette

  Country, Lying, Believe

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• You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Self, Trying, Most Amazing

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• Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge.
  We like to fool ourselves.

  Russ Roberts

  Self, Comforting, Fool

  Russ Roberts (2014). “How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness”, p.31, Penguin

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• Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.

  Orrin Woodward

  Integrity, Self, Comfort

  Twitter post from Apr 05, 2017

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• One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

  Anais Nin

  Truth, Hypocrisy, Giants

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 5 (1947-1955)". Book by Anais Nin, 1975.

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• It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Deceiving Others, Ends, Ifs

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• First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.

  John F. Kennedy

  Truth, Reality, Thinking

  "Address at the Free University of Berlin". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 26, 1963.

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• We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  People, Knavery, Wickedness

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