Deception Quotes - Page 22

• If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the same phenomenon.

  Paul Virilio

  Book, Focus, Needs

  Source: ctheory.net

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• For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the deception, to the duplicity. It is the structure of an affair - not the sexual or emotional behavior or what people actually are doing.

  Esther Perel

  Lying, Emotional, People

  Source: wbur.org

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• Police have both extra constraints and extra permissions - on the one hand, they can't dodge involvement in social disorder as the rest of us can and they may be required to conduct themselves privately in a way that does not undermine their public authority; on the other hand, they have permission to engage in deceptions, invasions of privacy and uses of force that are forbidden to the rest of us. But this does not put them beyond common morality.

  John Kleinig

  Police, Morality, Common

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium... Photograph and be photographed.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Beautiful, Art, War

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• You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.

  John Irving

  Writing, Self, Stupidity

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• To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Evil, Suffering

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• Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

  Maria Montessori

  Soul, Deceit, Might

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• A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

  Lillian Hellman

  Simple, Ignorant, Theme

  Lillian Hellman (1976). “Scoundrel time”

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• Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Anxiety, Soul

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• No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Self, Persist

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• No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

  Bertrand Russell

  Self, Satisfaction, Self Deception

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.72, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Thinking, Appreciate

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.1049, Delphi Classics

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• I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

  Jason Mraz

  Acceptance, Mirrors, Who I Am

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• The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Awakening, Tales

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• It is impossible not to bestow the imputation of deliberate imposture and deception upon the gross pretense of a similitude between a king of Great Britain and a magistrate of the character marked out for that of the President of the United States. It is still more impossible to withhold that imputation from the rash and barefaced expedients which have been employed to give success to the attempted imposition.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Kings, Character, Giving

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.

  Paul Virilio

  Military, Sun, Force

  Source: ctheory.net

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• This is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization itself. I didn't need to do this [run for presidency], folks, believe me — believe me. I built a great company and I had a wonderful life. I could have enjoyed the fruits and benefits of years of successful business deals and businesses for myself and my family. Instead of going through this absolute horror show of lies, deceptions, malicious attacks — who would have thought? I'm doing it because this country has given me so much, and I feel so strongly that it's my turn to give back to the country that I love.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Country, Lying

  Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations, www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sleep, Self, Mind

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• For the strategies of deception are concerned with deceiving an opponent through the logistics of perception. But these strategies are not merely aimed at the Serbs or the Iraqis but also at all those who might support [Slobodan] Milosevic or Saddam Hussein.

  Paul Virilio

  Support, Perception, Might

  Source: ctheory.net

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• This is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies and no deceptions. One can detect here, elevated to an incomparably higher level, the same pathetic emotional appeal that lies concealed in every fake spiritualist photograph, every pornographic photograph; one comes to suspect that the strange, disturbing emotional appeal of the photographic art consists solely in that same repeated refrain: this is a true ghost... this is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies, no deceptions.

  Yukio Mishima

  Art, Lying, Emotional

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• You have the economic vocabulary turning into vocabulary of deception.

  Michael Hudson

  Economic

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and to ways of thinking that merely amplify superstition, self-deception, and conflict.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Self, People

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• Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

  Bill Johnson

  Welcome, Compromise

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• The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

  Francis Bacon

  Fall, Men, Self

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

  Francis Bacon

  Done, Want, Facts

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