Acting Quote by Barbara Tuchman

“In political affairs illusions are usually the product of a failure to appreciate change; but such failure-usually a necessary and perhaps salutary part of…

— Laurence Lafore

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

— John F. Kennedy

But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more…

— Karl Marx

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

— John Updike

Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual…

— William Godwin

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

— Derek Jarman

“In other words, it requires deliberate self-deception, including a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and 'negative' thoughts. The truly self-confident,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Deception is often an outcome of an unexpected negative perception.

— Lord Jack Kabasu

Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance…

— Walter E. Williams

The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware…

— Stefan Zweig

“People can fall into habitual programmed patterns of thinking, underpinned by long-held beliefs and blind acceptance of conventional wisdom. Lying beneath such surface thoughts…

— Mark Ireland