383 Quotes About Deceit

He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.

Taxes fund wars, wars generate taxes; wars are engineered, taxes are imposed. More wars generate more taxes, more taxes fund more wars.Lies & deceit spark the fear, fear feeds on the inherent bias & insecurities. More fear leads to more feed-fest which leads to war.Repeat para-1.

Right beneath this shimmering...beneath this glittering surface of water liesa distorted view of the world above.

He smiled at her, the same smile stapled to the mask of every career politician.

My own mother was evacuated at the age of five during World War Two and my father was a young man working as an ARP warden. This novel is purely fictitious, but I wanted to explore the traumas that many ordinary people of the war generation suffered, experiences which would be quite unimaginable to many of us today and then to contrast them with the issues we all face in the modern day.

If the intellect functions in wrong direction, it is deceit and if it turns in the right direction, it will get one’s work done.

Where there is deceit [kapat], there is a beating and insult is the ‘fruit’ of self-pride [maan]. This is ‘our’ discovery.

Once the deceit is exposed, the mind will be brought under control [contained]. By exposing it, the mind can be controlled.

Once you've seen something that's got nothing to do with you, you can't claim ignorance. But you're still powerless. So at the very least, you want to let yourself feel pity and leave it at that. Those emotions are beautiful and noble, but they're also a cruel and ugly excuse. It's nothing more than an extension of the deceitful youth ideology that I loathe so much.