Being deceived Quote by Nawal El Saadawi

Men still have to be governed by deception.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“There are stages in the business of serious life in which to assume is cruel, but to deceive is to destroy; and it is…

— Thomas Paine

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

— Jonathan Swift

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning…

— Isaiah Berlin

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too many of…

— Samuel Richardson

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts to show, like jugglers, another…

— Sallust

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

— Jean Giraudoux

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description of the…

— Frederick Lenz

The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus…

— John Calvin

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.

— Marcus Aurelius