Deceptive Strategies Quotes

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.

For the strategies of deception are concerned with deceiving an opponent through the logistics of perception. But these strategies are not merely aimed at the Serbs or the Iraqis but also at all those who might support [Slobodan] Milosevic or Saddam Hussein.

My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.

I like games where you can use stealth and guile. As you get older, it's like the difference between playing squash and racketball. Squash is an older man's game, because if you're stealthy and wily, you can beat a better-co-ordinated and stronger, younger person.

Don't you go believing in sayings … they are all made by men, for their own advantages.

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.

I've come through it and seen people in football that are sharks. They are ones to stay away from.

Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.

Power factions fight back with lies.

Trump is very skillful at identifying - even if he can't quite get it clear, or precisely describe it - but that's what he wants to do, is always have something to use against people, even if it's distorted.

The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.

Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.