Best 481 quotes in «deceit quotes» category

The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs.

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every cruelty, every wrong, reaches back sooner or later and crushes its author. Justice is moral health, bringing happiness, wrong is moral disease, bringing mortal death.

The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

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

The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business of his life is only to deceive.

Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

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

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

The pictures from the first professional photo session that the young David Beckham submitted himself to are extraordinary. He has a barely suppressed smile, as though he and the cameraman are complicit in the understanding that this is not yet David Beckham we see and that there is an element of deceit in selling the photographs as such

The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

The lion of anger shall give place to the lamb of meekness; the raven of uncleanness shall fly before the dove of purity; the vile serpent of deceit shall be trodden under the heel of truth.

The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

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

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.

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.'

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

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

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

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

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry — chock full of it.

They mislead the unwitting masses.

They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.