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“If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.”

Ifs Men May Clear Meditation Masters Deceit Yellow Reckless Robes Muddy

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs.”

People Sometimes Reality Belief Evolution Refuse Acknowledge Unconscious Deceit Inadequacy Owing Sectarianism Falsity

Author:Pierre-Paul Grasse

“The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.”

Ifs Looks Heart Persons Eye Pain Sorrow Mirrors Deceit Sorrow Love

Book:The Language of Threads: A Novel

Source: The Language of Threads: A Novel

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

Real Reality Bitter Deceit Bitterness

Book:Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques

Source: Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques

“The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when you're trying to make something work. And the choices we make I think are accurate. There aren't any lies in it. There are assumpt”

Thinking Trying Art Reality Lying Choices Drama Deceit Accurate Documentaries

Author:Mark Rydell

“They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening”

Made Reality Accepting Events Happenings Tyranny Deceit Tyrants Violation

Book:1984

Source: 1984

“How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.”

Ifs Reality Lying Achieve Deceit Literal Alterations Anomalies

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical? There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.”

Ifs Men Reality Lying Desire Values Given Interest Views Business Sacrifice Conflict Destruction Absolutes Aim Trade Threat Practicals Deceit Irrational Conflict Of Interest Personal Desire

Author:Ayn Rand

“We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news media cooperated. We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.”

Law Lines Written Effects Media Figures News Percent Statements Abortion Deceit Illegal Statistics Feds Polls Lied Dishonesty In-laws Pro Life News Media Fabrication

Author:Bernard Nathanson

“Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.”

Men Believe Home Eye Lying Fear Imagination Hell Adventure Arms Weakness Died Deceit Old Man Slaughter Censure Decor Paraphrase Home Home Mendacity

Author:Ezra Pound

“War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.”

Way Has Beens War Ends Nations Term Hours Conflict Murder Peaceful Deceit Fierce Timing September September 11 Stealth

Author:George W. Bush

“We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.”

Literature Teacher Deceit Retirement Temper Hype Discretion

Book:A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall

Source: A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall

“After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.”

Thinking Lying Knowledge Issues Ambition Historical Guides Vanity Deceit Passages Deceiving Cunning Whispering Corridors

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.”

Culture Results Habit Conflict Instinct Complicated Deceit Reverence Cowardice Ecology Adjustment Incomplete Civilisation Disagreeable Idiosyncrasies Deep Ecology

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.”

People Art Spirit Lying Mistake Poverty Stupidity Ridiculous Deceit Museums Petty Imposter Ridiculous Things

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.”

Source: A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency

“Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.”

Humans Today Lying Sea Civilization Deceit Drowning Human Civilization

Author:L. Neil Smith

“I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?”

Thinking Men Lying Order Sex Opposites Deceit Roger Dodgers

Author:Jennifer Beals

“For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.”

Lord Creation Touched Deceit

Book:Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]

Source: Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]

“Can't we just pursue our lives With our children and our wives Till that happy day arrives How do you ignore All the witches All the curses All the wolves, all the lies The false hopes, the goodbyes . . .”

Life Children Lying Our Lives Wife Our Children Pursue Curse Goodbye Deceit Witch Happy Day False Hope

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than to ensnare another officer in a web of lies and deceit.”

Should Today Lying Greater Messages Police Betrayal Department Deceit Officers Brotherhood Badges Verdict Police Department Webs Of Lies

Author:Loretta Lynch

“Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social laws, not authoritatively imposed but inherent in things, in relations, in situations, the natural development of which is expressed by those laws. We say YES if they are political and juridical laws, imposed upon men by men.”

“A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church that continually strives to take God's side in the battle against the ungodly desires and deceits of the world, our flesh, and the devil. It's a church that continually seeks to conform itself to God's Word.”

World Desire Sides Church Sin Perfect Healthy Battle Devil Strive Flesh Deceit Conform Strife

Author:Mark Dever

“Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.”

Lying Dangerous Members Sacred Affection Obligation Deception Deceit Dishonesty Trifles Deceiver

Author:George Crabbe

“Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true”

Lying Literature Deceit

Author:Elias Canetti

“Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.”

Has Beens Lying Stuff Hurt Numbers News Mouths Bills Insanity Deceit It Hurts Schedules Foxes Up And Down Shameful Coverage Illogical Fox News Sean Infuriating News Channels Bill O Reilly

Author:David Shuster

“Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists must be encouraged to think about the weaknesses and extrapolations that theoreticians put forward or lay down as established truths. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and falsity of their beliefs.”

“It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.”

Should Inspiration Lying Turns Europe England Prosperity Deceit Our Future Scotland Leaning In Future Prosperity

Author:Hugh MacDiarmid

“Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.”

Knows Years Wells Might Lasts Used Dies Bears Deceit Hype Pluck Deceitful Polar Bears Heartstrings

Author:Piers Corbyn

“Pornography. . .overtakes lives, causing loss of the Spirit, distorted feelings, deceit, damaged relationships, loss of self-control, and nearly total consumption of time, thought, and energy.”

Self Feelings Spirit Energy Loss Deceit Self Control Consumption Pornography

Author:Linda S. Reeves

“The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.”

Mind Perception Deception Deceit Wedges

Author:Wes Fesler

“None are deceived but they that confide.”

Deceit Deceived Poor Richard

Book:Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

“Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.”

Lying Ability Effects Talent Extraordinary Deceit Deceiving Cunning Credulity

Book:The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Source: The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

“All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.”

Deceit Chill Benevolence

Book:Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia ... A new edition, with engravings

Source: Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia ... A new edition, with engravings

“Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.”

Existence Particular Commit Guilty Ease Injury Deceit Fraud Deceiving

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.”

Humans Evil Vanity Visible Deceit Falsehood Testimony Convenience Degradation

Book:The Lives of the Poets: A Selection

Source: The Lives of the Poets: A Selection

“The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.”

Hate Found I Hate Deceit Cheated

Author:Samuel Johnson

“It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.”

Seems Capable Unique Loyalty Deceit Immense Shocking Hype Atrocities Ambivalence Love And Loyalty Immense Love

Author:John Scott

“The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?”

War Suffering Middle Angry Chaos East Preparation Deceit Going Away Middle East Routes Linked Hype

Author:Clare Short

“Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.”

People Believe May Enough Lying Conscience Guides Deceit Disagree Hype Deceitful

Author:Lee Greenwood

“Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.”

Reason Tragedy Deceit Hype Foul Deceitful Restful

Book:The play as theater

Source: The play as theater

“We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.”

Names Christ Race Enemy Trouble Praying Deceit Hateful Colony Deceitful

Author:Peter Stuyvesant

“Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.”

Ability Deceit Hateful Hype Deceitful Manipulative

Author:Neil LaBute

“God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.”

Causes Holy Deceit

Author:Aeschylus

“Wiles and deceit are female qualities.”

Quality Female Deceit

Book:Aeschylus

Source: Aeschylus

“It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable.”

Miserable Deceit Deceived Being Deceived

Author:Sophie Arnould

“Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.”

Ifs Men Way Littles Different States Practice Honest Amount Prison Different Ways Sufficient Deceit Honest Man

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.”

Men Made Seems Instruments Musical Deceit Musical Instruments

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.”

Men Deceit Falsehood Deceiving Bad Man

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.”

Men Needs Choices Loss Ready Victim Deceit Dupes

Author:Honore de Balzac

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