Deception Quotes

God’s eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.

~ Denise Hildreth Jones

People are secretive when they have secrets.

~ Deb Caletti

People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

~ Charles Fort

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

~ Suzy Kassem

Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really investigate to see what is really there. We embrace illusions only because we are presented with the illusion that they are embraced by the majority. When in truth, they only become popular because they are pounded at us by the media with such an intensity and high level of repetition that its mere force disguises lies and truths. And like obedient schoolchildren, we do not question their validity and swallow everything up like medicine. Why? Because since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.

~ Suzy Kassem

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

~ Sun Tzu

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

~ Thomas Hobbes

People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.

~ Aleksandra Layland

The enemy knows that without surrender, we will never experience the freedom that God offers us. Without surrender, we will remain spiritually malnourished, ill and confused. Without surrender, our foxholes become prisons of the enemy's making. Our lack of full surrender limits God's ability to both work in our lives and through our lives.God's call to surrender is not an intimidating, angry bark heard from the other side of a battlefield. God's invitation to surrender is expressed through the example of his Son, Jesus, as described in Philippians 2:5-11.

~ Katherine J Walden

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

~ Agatha Christie

Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.

~ Evita Ochel

Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone.

~ Imre Kertész

People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you.

~ Suzy Kassem

Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud.

~ Dashanne Stokes

When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Princes give rewards with their own hands,But death or punishment by the hands of other.

~ John Webster

Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.

~ Dashanne Stokes

If you lay with a scorpion, don't be surprised when it finally stings you.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Hitler was calling upon Almighty God to give him courage and strength to save the German people and right the wrongs of Versailles...and then to settle down and govern the county in the interest of those millions of oppressed little people for whom he spoke so eloquently.

~ Upton Sinclair

To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.

~ Suzy Kassem

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABESIt is a pity that we often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other. ~Empress Irene~

~ Kris Waldherr

Treat me well and I will tell... Treat me bad and I feel sad. Treat me good, change my mood. Treat me sweet and call it quits!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Nevertheless man has found love, which is not a bad reply to that sly Deity, and he has adorned it with so much poetry that woman often forgets the sensual part of it. Those among us who are unable to deceive themselves have invented vice and refined debauchery, which is another way of laughing at God and paying homage, immodest homage, to beauty.

~ Guy De Maupassant

Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself into believing that this limp god of mine is the true God, and then construct the entirety of my life on this flamboyantly fictional character. Possibly the most devastating realization of all is when the real God shows up, and in the showing up all of this come crashing down.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Your soul understands more than you think.

~ Atom Tate

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

~ Thomas S. Monson

All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Fine words have the power to make even the stupidest person sound intelligent.

~ Marty Rubin

I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

~ Criss Jami