#deceit

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. ↗

— Piers Corbyn

#because #before #deceitful #did #die

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#classes #combined #cultures #deceit #ends

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#angry #capacity #daily #daily life #deceitful

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit. ↗

— Robert Charles Wilson

#childhood #deceit #lying #art

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

#deceit #revolutionary #telling #telling the truth #time

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself. ↗

— Balthasar Gracian

#deceit #truth #art

...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#deceit #drow #death

Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are. ↗

— Susan Forward

#deceit #liar #lies #pathological-liars #trust

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. ↗

— Michel Houellebecq

#evil #good #love #love

DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#deceit #dishonesty #falsehood #hearts #honesty