Political Deception Quotes

#1. If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.

Steven Pinker

#2. ...empires were formed by wars of conquest, but ruled by deception."
The Professor, Hope's great-uncle and the builder of the time-machine.

Eve Human

#3. proverb attributed to Seneca that says, "A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Anonymous

#4. Interesting people in all times and places tend to do two things well - they straddle boundaries, and they bend public perception.

Preston Lauterbach

#5. Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#6. You can't be bad ass in a car that kills gas like I kill tacos.

Gabriel Iglesias

#7. Aeronautics did not lead to democracy, unless budget airlines count.

Julian Barnes

#8. The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Joseph Schumpeter

#9. Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

Ruta Sepetys

#10. PLEEZ BE QUITE IN THE LIBERY PEPLE R TRYING TO GET HI!

Joe Hill

#11. Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.

Robert M. Gates

#12. The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

Chanakya

#13. In political affairs illusions are usually the product of a failure to appreciate change; but such failure-usually a necessary and perhaps salutary part of human affairs-becomes, when the change is very fast, not a stabilizing conservatism but a form of deception resembling lunacy.

Laurence Lafore

#14. I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

Pankaj Mishra

#15. I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

Baz Luhrmann

#16. What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the Mandela, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.

Terence McKenna

#17. The humiliating climbdown, the necessary deception, and stepping over one's pride: they should each have their honoured place in a modern account of the political virtues.

Jonathan Glover

#18. People take the feeling of full for granted.

Marya Hornbacher

#19. People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

Vladimir Lenin

#20. Is it not strange how humans will resort to the most inhumane of actions as the first plausible solution? Why are we such a feral bloodthirsty species when we are supposedly the enlightened ones? Are we guardians ... or just mindless butchers?

Dimitri Zaik

#21. My mother had tried to fool me into thinking I was a natural beauty, and I'd believed her for a little while, that is, until I moved to the land of beautiful people.

J.C. Patrick

#22. You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

Flannery O'Connor

#23. You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

Gary Hopkins

#24. The urge to find the real facts is destructive only to people or systems (friendships, family dynamics, political dynasties) that are based on lies. The truth can scare you half to death, but it's never as destructive as deception.

Martha N. Beck

#25. We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.

Denis Kearney

#26. Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.

Lance Armstrong