deceit quotes

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

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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

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.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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

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

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.

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