Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 308 Deception quotesDeception QuotesDeception Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.~ Salvador de Madariaga The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.~ Charles-Louis De Secondat There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.~ Charles-Louis De Secondat The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.~ Alexis de Tocqueville There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.~ Demosthenes The reality is, if we tell the truth, we only have to tell the truth once. If you lie, you have to keep lying forever.~ Rabbi Wayne Dosick A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself.~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky The most may err as grossly as the few.~ John Dryden Of all the tyrannies on human kind / the worst is that which persecutes the mind.~ John Dryden Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.~ Alexandre Dumas Hamilton's whole monetary policy is based on unconstitutional grounds and unsound reasoning, and fraudulent statements. His policies were fought through the whole public career of Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Randolph and many another truly great lovers of Republican Government. His policies have proved to be more destructive of our independent and democratic form of government than the old subjugation of the Colonies by Great Britain. The deliberations in Congress over Hamilton's Bank Bill, and the opinions of members of The Cabinet show the intensity of feeling between the private money interests and those supporting the Constitution. History records that the “money changers” have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance.~ Olive Cushing Dwinell One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole. We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy.~ Ottmar Edenhofer The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of the people.~ David Edwards In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.~ Desiderius Erasmus Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.~ Harold Evans The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.~ Sam Ewing Man is deeply vulnerable when faced with overwhelming evil. Instead of consolidating his energy to fight it, he wastes valuable time and effort puzzling over it, insisting it is not, cannot possibly be, what it seems.~ Konnilyn G. Feig The world wishes to be deceived.~ Sebastian Franck The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes~ Justice Felix Frankfurter But what madness must it be to run in debt for these superfluities! We are offered, by the terms of this vendue, six months' credit; and that perhaps has induced some of us to attend it, because we cannot spare the ready money, and hope now to be fine without it. But, ah, think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor; you will be in fear when you speak to him, you will make poor pitiful sneaking excuses, and by degrees come to lose you veracity, and sink into base downright lying; for, as Poor Richard says, the second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. And again to the same purpose, lying rides upon debt's back.~ Benjamin Franklin Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print