Quotes about Deception
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
- Frank Herbert
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
- Will Rogers
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.
- CS Lewis
I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.
- Will Rogers
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
- Will Rogers
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
- Will Rogers
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
- Will Rogers
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
- William James
It hurt me, and pained my very heart, that any body should show me any respect. Alas! methought, how sadly they are deceived in me! how miserably would they be disappointed, if they knew my inside! Oh my heart!
- David Brainerd
Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which human beings do not know what they are doing when they cut one another down on the battlefield.
- David Livingstone Smith
God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
- JC Ryle