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• So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

  Milton Friedman

  Games, Long, Competition

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.133, University of Chicago Press

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• Nonbelievers are not anti-religious, they are anti-fraud and anti-deception.

  Steve Fowler

  Religious, Anti Religious, Fraud

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• Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.

  Walter Lippmann

  Strong, Skills, People

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Mean, Enemy, Use

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources". Book by James Wood, 1899.

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• It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Self, People, Our Society

  "The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter III, Part 9, The Embrarras De Richesses, p. 150, 1960.

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• The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

  Lord Acton

  Ideas, Substance, May

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.28, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.

  Theodor Adorno

  Fall, Eye, Self

  Theodor W Adorno (2005). “The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture”, p.103, Routledge

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• If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.

  Mark Steyn

  Country, Gun, Safety

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• It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Deceiving, Deceived, Oneself

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• The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Cheating, Men, Traps

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• The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Responsibility

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• This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

  Holly Black

  Language, Born, Curse

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.

  John Piper

  Biblical, Order, Religion

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• A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

  Alexander Cockburn

  War, Self, Shelter

  New Statesman and Society (Magazine), February 8, 1991.

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• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  H. L. Mencken

  Wisdom, Men, Ideas

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• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.226

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• When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

  Darin Strauss

  Self, Dying, Embers

  Darin Strauss (2001). “Chang and Eng”, p.13, Penguin

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• Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Workout, Truth, Inspiration

  "The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard" by Soren Kierkegaard, pt. 5, sct. 3, no 128, 1850.

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• People’s feelings are easily swayed. The things reflected in people’s eyes are full of deception. Nothing is as it appears.

  Ai Yazawa

  Eye, People, Feelings

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• The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.

  Bhikkhu Analayo

  Honesty, Self Esteem, Mind

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• Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Truth, Honesty, Mean

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• Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dog, Lying, Perception

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• There's a degree of deception in silence.

  Don Lemon

  Silence, Degrees

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• The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Believe, Assumption, Seeing Is Believing

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1993). “Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy”, p.46, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Self, Needs, Shelter

  "Stopped in Our Tracks, Book Two: Excerpts from U.G.'s Dialogues". Book by K. Chandrasekhar, 2005.

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