#deception

Good bye" is a good gift when you wave it at me because I refuse to follow a bad advice you gave. Wave it at me and I will show you the door. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#advise #bad-advice #bad-friend #bye #bye-bye

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#destruction #leadership #responsibility #leadership

Deception sneaks in through the window of pride. ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#life-quotes #pride #window #life

I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise." Yet we have scriptural authority for it: "Deceiving and being deceived."—2 TIM. iii. 13.] ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#interconnection #men

We are all tricked. We think that religion tells us what to believe; but it doesn't, it is telling us what not to believe. Atheism is not the absence of religion; atheism is the most undiluted form of religion: it tells us not to believe in anything at all. Atheists hate the religious and the religious hate atheists, but this is only a deception! We are all deceived! There is only one boat and we are all in it! All at the same time! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#deception #dogma #religion #the-great-deception #trickery

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me. ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#lying #self-deception #truth #time

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #narrowmindedness #reading #self-deception #self-limiting-beliefs

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. ↗

— Euripides

#deceit #deception #elections #evil #false-promises

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#devil