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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.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma.

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

Self-deception helps us deceive.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message so that she may triumph; through zeal and civic action counterbalance the influence of money and the machinations lavished on the propagation of deception. That, in my opinion, is the most useful activity and the most sacred duty of pure patriotism.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.

Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

That's the old AA maxim, "Always have a drink in your hand and you'll never want a drink." That's one of the most classic deceptions in the literature: "I'll take a drink tomorrow." I actually don't think that's necessarily a very helpful maxim in AA, but it's a very good maxim in showing how strategic self-deception can be employed, even self-consciously. That's the amazing thing, to me, about self-deception.

Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.

The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.

the constant shower of the sun's mane erases the footprints on thin ice do not fear deception for the world lies atop deception ~Toushiro Hitsugaya

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

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

The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

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

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

The monster likes to talk; he jumps into your head and opens your mouth, making it spout your deepest darkest deceptions. Making you say all the things you'd rather not say, at least not in mixed company." (Ellen Hopkins)

The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.

The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.