Deceit Quotes - Page 25

• The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, War, Iraq

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• The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Primaries, Values

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• How people see the world is often a reflection of how they see themselves. If they think that the world is just a cesspool of lies and deceit, then they themselves may be full of lies and deceit. Watch out for those people who are always telling you just how corrupt the rest of the world is. As the saying goes, 'It takes one to know one.'

  David J. Lieberman

  Lying, Reflection, Thinking

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• I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Bible, Wisdom, Flames

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• I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let's not talk about this, ever again.

  Bobby Jones

  Lying, Golf, Play

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• The look of love alarms
  Because 'tis filled with fire;
  But the look of soft deceit
  Shall win the lover's hire.

  William Blake

  Love, Fire, Alarms

  "Complete Writings: With Variant Readings". Book by William Blake, 1966.

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• Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

  Vernon Howard

  Honesty, Healing, Self

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• The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'

  Devin Townsend

  Swimming, Rivers, Apathy

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• All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty, especially the farmers, working class people and the very poor. Then as now Jews have to be reminded intermittently anew that they were enjoying rights in any country since they left Palestine and the Arabian desert, and subsequently their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live.

  Pope Clement VIII

  Country, Class, Rights

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• The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

  Walter Raleigh

  Lying, Gains, Dishonesty

  "The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh".

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• Friendship is only friendship when it is real. Passionate and relentless. Forgiving and joyful. Don't forget today to have real moments with your friends. Not a text, or a tweet, an Instagram-- that's all deceit. Hold real hands, kiss genuine lips, be a truly strong human force.

  Lady Gaga

  Strong, Real, Kissing

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Dec 30, 2014

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• To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

  Maurice Blondel

  Humanity, Instinct, Salvation

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• Let us flee from the deceit of life and its supposed happiness and run to Christ alone, who is the Savior of souls. Him let us endeavor to find Who is present everywhere, and when we have found Him let us hold Him fast and fall at His feet (cf. Mt. 28:9) and embrace them in the fervor of our souls.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Running, Fall

  Saint Symeon (the New Theologian) (1980). “Symeon New Theologian”, p.58, Paulist Press

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• "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of no secret deceit; who are the same in act as they are in desire; who conceal no thought, no tendencies of thought, from their own conscience; who are faithful and sincere witnesses, before the tribunal of their own judgments, of all that passes within their mind. Such as these shall see God.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Blessed, Heart, Soul

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1972). “Selected Essays on Atheism”, Ayer Company Pub

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• I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

  Bob Dylan

  Hands, Evil, Streets

  Song: I Am a Lonesome Hobo, Album: John Wesley Harding

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• It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Inspirational, Sides, Cry

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• When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]... that the writer ... must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Failure, Science, Light

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• There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

  Robert Palmer

  Sweet, Revenge, Men

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• There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.

  Joseph Hall

  Taken, Hands, Two

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.89

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• The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense end knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it--a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Essence, Long Ago

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.17

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• I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain a human life forever: the deceit of hate on hearsay - hating an enemy one doesn't know.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Hate, War, Play

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• the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

  Margery Allingham

  Deception, Goats, Spots

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.85, Ipso Books

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• Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

  Sissela Bok

  Two, Deception, Violence

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.54, Vintage

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• The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Women, Garden, Stills

  Joseph Glanvill (1985). “Collected works of Joseph Glanvill”

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• There is no end to the deceits of the past.

  Vernon Lee

  Past, Ends

  Vernon Lee (1908). “Limbo, and Other Essays: To which is Now Added, Ariadne in Mantua”

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