The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There is only one sin that is theft... when you tell a lie you steel someone's right to truth. — The Kite Runner Copy Share Image
Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order. — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I believe that most of us construct a merciful deception between ourselves and the consequences of our existence in order that we… — Patricia J. McLean Copy Share Image
The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When you find your way you cannot be scared. You need to be brave enough to take wrong steps. The deceptions, failures,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“With each post or tweet, we choose what to keep private and what to make public, what face to show the world… — George Takei Copy Share Image
Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“Deception, you see, lies at the heart of business, politics and war. Even pleasure, wouldn’t you say? Everyone practises it, from the… — Michael Wreford Copy Share Image
“There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“As plain Jane, she had far more to risk than Lady Mystère did. Behind her mask she could be the mistress of… — Monica Burns Copy Share Image
The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
“She lost herself in infinite dismay when she thought of the magnitude of his deception.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
Don't become consumed in figuring who is right.. all that matters is figuring what is right. Anything else is menial. — Kenneth W Griffin Copy Share Image
“As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There is no logic in a lie but if you lie effectively to a group of people it can work like cancer. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Pride is a master of deception: when you think you're occupied in the weightiest business, that's when he has you in his… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The practice of deception is foolishness because the truth always eventually surfaces.” — Hayley Solich Copy Share Image
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I may smile bright. But that doesn't mean that I'm not losing this fight. It doesn't mean there's no struggle within me.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing. Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in… — Al Goldstein Copy Share Image
Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding)… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox: it is against the law to defraud some one but legal, and highly lucrative, to defraud every one.” — Wes Henricksen Copy Share Image
If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
People’s feelings are easily swayed. The things reflected in people’s eyes are full of deception. Nothing is as it appears. — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People who lie & deceive should remember it's a small world out there, with strange coincidences. What you give out, you get… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you live in torment if you do not trust enough! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Relationships are often transactional, except of course we want to wallow in self-deception.” — John Joclebs Bassey Copy Share Image