There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“but sometimes deception is needed not to hurt the ones we care for.” — Astrid Yrigollen Copy Share Image
“The weak will try to convince you that weakness is strength.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“But a lone voice carries no weight in a room full of hot air. It floats on the currents of bureaucracy and… — L.T. Ryan Copy Share Image
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Actually, all the life we keep deceiving eachother. Because, life is too short to hate someone.” — M.H. Rakib Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Just because you see me happy on the outside. Doesnt mean that I'm also happy in the inside... — Dr Mohamed Ali Copy Share Image
Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort. — Bobby Bowden Copy Share Image
Forgive me if I smile, it's just to hide my fears. Forgive me if I laugh, it's just to hide the tears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors,… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“We talk. Darlene worries aloud that her husband works with a lot of attractive young women; she herself is fourty. I tell… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
“He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“It occurred to us, from observation and from reasonin, that extra marital sex was not what really destroyed marriages, but rather the… — Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think,… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
“if the police do not use deception to persuade you to make an outright confession, they might persuade you to give them… — James Duane Copy Share Image
One of the most hurtful events that we experience when a relationship ends is to know the fact that after you have… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
“It remains, as ever, an axiom of conventional wisdom that the use of propaganda as a means of social and ideological control… — Alex Carey Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Later, when she sees the photographs for the first time, she will be surprised at how calm her face looks - how… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Satan wants you to believe that you don't have a choice in the matter. You can't be happy until things go the… — Lindsey Rietzsch Copy Share Image