False Promises Quotes - Page 2

• The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Father, Ocean

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• If we're going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better and the United States intends to do its part.

  Barack Obama

  People, Community, Promise

  Remarks by the President in Closing of the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 18, 2015.

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• Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.

  Barbara Mertz

  Spring, Promise, Resurrection

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• You claim that any promise which gives you the power, and guarantees you the love of God must be the false promise of the devil.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Giving

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.48, Penguin

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• Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Country, Kindness, Promise

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• Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

  Lisa Kristine

  Jobs, People, Promise

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