Deception Quotes

Warfare is the way of deception. (Sun Tzu)
The art of pleasing is the art of deception. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. View quote
William Hazlitt
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. View quote
Oscar Wilde
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides they are not keeping anything back there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
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. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. (Edwin Louis Cole)
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. View quote
Al Goldstein
I've spent a lot of time researching the subject and government deception. So to be involved in Star Trek is perfect for me. I enjoy meeting the fans and discussing my interests with them. View quote
Dwight Schultz
Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception. View quote
Kenneth Koch
If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. View quote
Marina Tsvetaeva
Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and least expensive manipulation of all. View quote
Vernor Vinge
Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people. View quote
Walter Lippmann
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable when using our forces, we must seem inactive when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away when far away, we must make him believe we are near. View quote
Sun Tzu
Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary. (J. M. Coetzee)
You just sit here and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains. View quote
Imre Kertész
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Like Karl Kraus, [Wittgenstein] was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby mostly offended his ear-particularly when they happened to speak philosophically; and like Karl Kraus, he suspected that the institutions could not but be corrupt if the idiom of the race was confused, presumptuous, and vacuous, a fabric of nonsense, untruth, deception, and self-deception. View quote
Thomas Szasz
Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State. View quote
James Jesus Angleton