Deludes Quotes

#1. While the romantic individualist deludes himself with unrealizable fantasies, in the attempt to evade bourgeois society, and only succeeds in destroying himself, he lets humanity fall a victim to the industrial-commercial processes, which, unimpeded by his dreaming, go on with their deadly work.

Edmund Wilson

#2. Frankly, I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We must abolish the entitlement that deludes us int believing that we have the right to make assumptions about people's identities and project those assumptions onto their genders and bodies.

Janet Mock

#3. See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.

Giordano Bruno

#4. Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people.

Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney

#5. In later years, one can grow so well accustomed as to smile at them, to take the tormentor's side with a. happy determination which deludes one into the belief that it is not, really, tormenting; but

Marcel Proust

#6. I am not holier than you, you are not holier than me. Any one who thinks he is holier than the rest deludes himself.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#7. that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness

Devdutt Pattanaik

#8. one can grow so well accustomed as to smile at them, to take the tormentor's side with a. happy determination which deludes one into the belief that it is not, really, tormenting;

Marcel Proust

#9. Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

Daniel Webster

#10. Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

James A. Baldwin

#11. now I know the power of maya: that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness. Oh

Devdutt Pattanaik

#12. Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.

Frank Underwood

#13. You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

John Dryden

#14. But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

Clement Of Alexandria

#15. Pride deludes us into thinking that we are the authors of our own lives.

David Brooks

#16. My mother still deludes herself that the letters are written out of more than a desire to spend as little time in our company as possible. She likes to think he is still hers.

Cat Hellisen

#17. The aim of Satanic power is to cut off communication with God. To accomplish this aim he deludes the soul with a sense of defeat, covers him with a thick cloud of darkness, depresses and oppresses the spirit, which in turn hinders prayer and leads to unbelief - thus destroying all power.

James O. Fraser

#18. Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

James Bovard

#19. But like Elle Woods, I do not like to be underestimated.

Reese Witherspoon

#20. I have never had a governmental position, and I will never accept such a position.

Shirin Ebadi

#21. Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

Umberto Eco

#22. There are basically two kinds of revolutionaries living in the world today. One looks at a crowd of people and asks how each might become a catalyst in bringing about a better world. The other looks to a picture of some fabled leader and asks how that crowd might come to follow him to the death.

James Tracy

#23. [An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

Mildred H. McAfee

#24. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

Benjamin Franklin

#25. Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

Cal Thomas

#26. Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.

Tacitus