A Quote by Eric Hoffer

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffer

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Deceive Does Helps Merely People Propaganda Them Themselves

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Eric Hoffer
American - Writer
July 25, 1898 - May 21, 1983

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

R. D. Laing

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

Matthew Henry

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

Tim Cook

Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky as we think we are.

Peter Orner

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Mark Twain

even when nothing is happening, nothing stands still. ... I am not a rock, but a river; people deceive themselves by seeing me as a rock. Or is it I who deceive them and pretend that I am a rock when I am a river?

Nina Berberova

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

Jean Giraudoux

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

Olusegun Obasanjo

It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

J. C. Ryle

Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust.

Cesare Borgia

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Agatha Christie

We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

Sidney Jourard

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.

Mary Schapiro

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

Jeanette Winterson

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