The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
And I know this world is so cold and deceiving but I keep my head up like my nose is bleeding. — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 =… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest. — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted. — Eusebius Copy Share Image
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to… — Pope Pius VI Copy Share Image
It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
