To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech,...

You’ve seen what they wanted you to see. They gave you a blindfold to wear and convinced you it would improve your eyesight.”

…I wanted to remove,my diamond earrings,for I felt they were,weighing a little heavy.I wanted to remove my heels,for I felt they were,taking me a little,above the ground,than I needed to be.I wanted to,throw away my...

It’s always the ‘others’ who are deceived.

How did I find out? I was deceiving him.

Though the trials of life are never easy, someone to stand with you and help you with your burdens is one of the true essences of living. It is well that two should join together...

I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.

Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years...

I wanted to get away from him before he led me into talking, before he made me feel angry, or grieved, or jealous all over again. I did not want to feel anything for him,...

It’s the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

All things are possible; if something seems like it’s not, it’s only because enough people aren’t being deceived into the possibilities yet.

Death is an insatiable creature with greedy hands.

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

They are trained to look for stress, fear or some sort of deception. They identify certain characteristics and pass the information on to local law enforcement.

If the map doesn’t agree with the ground the map is wrong

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain times, and then I work to figure out for myself if what he...

I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

We talk. Darlene worries aloud that her husband works with a lot of attractive young women; she herself is fourty. I tell her it´s not about age. “Little thing called character,” I say, thinking, Accepting...

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Je découvris qu’en bluffant les psychiatres on pouvait tirer des trésors inépuisables de divertissement gratifiants: vous les menez habilement en bateau, leur cachez soigneusement que vous connaissez toutes les ficelles du métier; vous inventez à...

We must know something about malevolence, about how to recognize it, and about how not to make excuses for it. We must know that we cannot expect fair play.That is, perhaps, most crucial of all....

A house built on lies has a weak foundation.

A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

Why does death have to stop #love? It doesn’t stop people from voting in Chicago.

She hated him – she hated everything he stood for. But when they said hate is akin to love they were certainly right. Because she needed him with every fibre of her being. And hard...

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close the door.

..deceivers must expect to be deceived.

Take me now, God!” I shout to the inky sky. “I´m ready.””You´re not ready. You´re not even divorced yet,” Bunny says. “You cannot die married to that man.

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted

Some people take what they need from the orchard, and other people pick the orchard clean.”From – “The Mind Game Company – The Players

The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful.

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever deceivers.

All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us...

Beware of fame; for when they come for you, they come not to give, but for to gain.Whoever is needed, wields the most power.Whoever is needy, seeks to wield that power.

All facades fall sometime, then the mask comes off and the real heart is seen.

Orange Juice? Sure. Toast? Sure. One last time on the couch? Sure. Phone number? Sure. See you again? Oooh, absolutely. That was the lie I told. Probably not, that was the truth, that was that...

When Eve upon the first of MenThe apple press’d with specious cant,Oh! what a thousand pities thenThat Adam was not adamant!

Should it happen, that your partner leaves you for someone else with more money. To where later you strike it richer than the person they left you for, and the ex finds out, after losing...

If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another.

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

Be careful of who becomes your friend and why. The person who will bite off your lips one day will have to first promise you a kiss today. Be careful of hypocrites.

The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

The government researchers, aware of the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They decided to use selective trauma on healthy children to create personalities capable of...

I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.