Deception Quotes
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.
Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.
A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.
We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.
To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.
A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.
We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.
For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.
It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.
Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty
Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.
You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing.
Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.
The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.
The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life.
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.
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
