A lie’s true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after...

Mainstream news wants to keep you as a useful idiot. Instead, try being a non-useful idiot.

I’ll bet I could find some hurtful words in a pile of sticks and stones. Something like an insincere and deceptive “I love you.

Thought always deceives us, when it becomes a substitute for action.

When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance…that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts...

yea, ” and no one contradicts you. But for all that, his bowing and scraping are welcome everywhere; he is received, smiled upon, and wriggles himself into all kinds of society; and, if any appointment...

I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.

Beware when wrong-doing is called good and right-doing is called evil.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Deception’ is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from...

I have led you down a road of deception just to correct you and make you look like an uneducated ass

I’m honor-bound not to struggle with this since you just retrieved it all by yourself. Please do me the courtesy of pretending this is hard for you as well.

We tell you, tapping on our brows,The story as it should be,As if the story of a houseWere told or ever could be.

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

He seemed to swallow the lie I fed him. I hope he’s not still hungry. If he is, I’ll give him the illusory dessert known as the American Dream.

Authenticity was the key to any deception. Sometimes authenticity was disgusting.

I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is...

To keep myself from harming or calling N and to stave off the rage and despair, I focus on my extraordinary son, drink midrange Chardonnay every night after he is asleep, and make a barrage...

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in...

The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense; it is not God.

Silly you.”Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998

Shit spews from your lips as from the ass of a pig.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth!

For you, it’s all about money, money, money. But what about the forests I say? Some of those trees have been there for hundreds of years. What right have you to destroy that?

And when I speak, I don’t speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America’s so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy – all we’ve...

Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.

You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception.

God is great and God is good,” Lisa says. “But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?

Who would appreciate such candor? No one. None of us really likes honesty. We prefer deception –but only when it is unabashedly flattering or artfully camouflaged. Groups seem to need to believe that they are...

Crime isn’t pretty, only fashionably dressed.

My lifeless body – a boat with sunken anchors, without leader on board, without harbor, without country, only my moist sails afloat in that tremendous ocean of my tears ,,,,

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...