What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say. — Seth Copy Share Image
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wake up and smell the facism; The biggests terrorists are not on the streets they are in Government. — Wandini Copy Share Image
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Want to discover the truth about deception in therapy? Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson have collected a formable collection of old pros… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may… — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“How could I have never told anyone what He had done for me? Nothing else had worked. Nothing had been able to… — Nikki Rosen Copy Share Image
For the US, the Kosovo War was a success because it encouraged the development of the Pentagon's 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA).… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may… — Neel Burton 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
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 fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“No prize , however great can justify an ounce of self deception or a small departure of the ugly facts. ( Notes from Underground)” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Just because you believe in fairies doesn't mean you have to believe everything they say! -Petra Godfellow” — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
I never cheated, for the record, back when I was with you. But you believed in everything but me girl, I don't… — Drake Copy Share Image
“You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy. — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't hate you because you left. I hate you because you pretended that you wouldn't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Refresh your commitment today to test everything by the Word of God. The surest defense against spiritual deception is knowledge of spiritual… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Be careful of who you pick as a friend, most people pretend to listen, but are only gathering information to judge you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had a dream that my boyfriend went back to his ex¦I woke up and giggled because you dont pick up a… — Shalini Copy Share Image
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas." ( "The devil's finest trick is to persuade… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
![“This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?” quote by Mary McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/97d/mary-mccarthy-2691_clay_this-grossly-advertised-wonder-venice-th_933398.png)
![“87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise." Yet we have scriptural authority for it: "Deceiving and being deceived."—2 TIM. iii. 13.]” quote by François de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1b5/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld-1_deceiving_87-men-would-not-live-long-in-society-we_757979.png)
![“The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt… To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact…” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/460/george-orwell-57_accounts_the-process-of-mass-media-deception-has_2989169.jpg)
