268 quotes found
“What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.”
“A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.”
“Who would appreciate such candor? No one. None of us really likes honesty. We prefer deception but only when it is unabashedly flattering or artfully camouflaged. Groups seem to need to believe tha...”
“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are fa...”
“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
“Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.”
“A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.”
“I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.”
“Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.”
“I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.”
“Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone.”
“Princes give rewards with their own hands,But death or punishment by the hands of other.”
“Beware of fame; for when they come for you, they come not to give, but for to gain.Whoever is needed, wields the most power.Whoever is needy, seeks to wield that power.”
“Hitler was calling upon Almighty God to give him courage and strength to save the German people and right the wrongs of Versailles...and then to settle down and govern the county in the interest of...”
“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.", June 16, 1918)”
“We see what we want to see, what we expect to see, instead of what's really there. I don't think we do it on purpose, most of the time. We just get kind of stuck. We start thinking that the way thi...”
“The reality and the deception are the perceptions as of colors- say of black and white in this multicolored world.”
“Every man has three worlds. What he perceives, what he shows to the world and his reality. The third one is the mystery to be lived.”
“This world you think you know? It's hidden... in shards of reality.”
“Your true personality is not the outer you but the inner you not the person you present to the world but the person you hide from the world ”
