A Quote by Woodrow Wyatt
Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.
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Self-deceit—It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. Another cardinal sin. We must not pay homage to any of the sacred cows presented to us, including the roles we are expected to play ourselves. The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness. But then, it’s not self-deceit!
To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.
I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to
make man believe that he can live without God's Word.
I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain a human life forever: the deceit of hate on hearsay - hating an enemy one doesn't know.
Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.
If you wish to see the blessings which "God has prepared for those who love Him" (I COR 2:9), then take up your abode in the desert of the renunciation of your own will, and flee the world. What world? The world of the lust of the eyes, of your fallen self (I JN 2:16), the presumptuousness of your own thoughts, the deceit of things you can see.
Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.
One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.
There is no language without deceit.
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.
What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.
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