Deception Quotes

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

All war is deception.

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

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.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

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

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

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

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.

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

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.

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.

The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe. It truly is all misrepresentation and deception.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

All warfare is based on deception.

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.

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.