Deception Quotes - page 2

If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for universal norms tyrannical: only brute force (or seductive deception) can then bend the different moralities so that they fit the prescriptions of a single ethical system. And indeed, the idea of universal laws of nature and society arose in connection with a life-and-death battle: the battle that gave Zeus the power over the Titans and all other gods and thus turned his laws into the laws of the universe. (Paul Karl Feyerabend)
No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race. View quote
John F. Kennedy
This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses. View quote
Holly Black
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy. View quote
Ben Macintyre
Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived. View quote
Ben Macintyre
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. View quote
Adelbert von Chamisso
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception. View quote
John Piper
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. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception. View quote
John Bevere
Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled. View quote
John Wanamaker
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. (Tite Kubo)
I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24) View quote
P. C. Cast
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky. View quote
Andrew Bird
There's a degree of deception in silence. View quote
Don Lemon
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. View quote
E. V. Lucas
Deception is everywhere. View quote
Jim Sanborn
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway. View quote
Joseph O'Neill
The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception. View quote
Knute Rockne
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. View quote
Marco Tempest
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. View quote
Michael Musto
We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home. (Raul Grijalva)
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. View quote
Sissela Bok
But they say, "It is not so much the Dreadnoughts we object to, it is pensions". If they objected to pensions, why did they promise them? They won elections on the strength of their promises. It is true they never carried them out. Deception is always a pretty contemptible vice, but to deceive the poor is the meanest of all. View quote
David Lloyd George
As long as the bourgeois parliament remains a means of duping the workers, and phrases about "democracy” are used to cover up financial swindling and every kind of bribery (the particularly "subtle” brand of bribery the bourgeoisie practise with regard to writers, N. P. s, lawyers, and others is nowhere to be seen on so wide a scale as in the bourgeois parliament), we Communists are in duty bound to be in this very institution (which is supposed to express the people's will but actually covers up the deception of the people by the wealthy) to untiringly expose this deception, and expose each and every case of the Renners and Co.'s desertion to the capitalists, against the workers. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli