deceit quotes

9 quotes

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

Noam Chomsky

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

William Shakespeare

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

Noam Chomsky

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

Noam Chomsky

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

William Makepeace Thackeray

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

Brian Eno

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Benjamin Franklin