#deceitful

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

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#all things #deceitful #deliver #desperately #excellent

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#definition #hundred #include #money #narrow

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. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#commanded #conscience #deceitful #disagree #enough

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. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#christ #colony #deceitful #further #hateful

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

— Jean Anouilh

#foul #hope #part #reason #restful

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. ↗

— Henry Adams

#deceitful #ever #man #mistress #most

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. ↗

— Jane Austen

#boast #carelessness #deceitful #humility #indirect

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. ↗

— Guy Debord

#center #chatter #chosen #condemning #consider

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

— Neil LaBute

#deceitful #everybody #hateful #manipulative