Quotes about Deception

Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.

Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.

the evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own.

Men will not cease to be dishonest, merely because their dishonesties have been revealed or because they have discovered their own deceptions. Wherever men hold unequal power in society, they will strive to maintain it. They will use whatever means are most convenient to that end and will seek to justify them by the most plausible arguments they are able to devise.

Men will not cease to be dishonest, merely because their dishonesties have been revealed or because they have discovered their own deceptions. Wherever men hold unequal power in society, they will strive to maintain it.

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not

The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

I would desire every divine to beware that he tell not the unsanctified, that whoever hath the least degree of love to God for himself, and not as a means to carnal ends, shall certainly be saved ; for he would certainly deceive many thousand miserable souls that should persuade them of this (670).

The game is over once we see clearly because evil succeeds only by disguising itself as good, necessary, or helpful.

there is an early stage "holiness" that looks like the real thing, but it isn't.

They look like the oppressors, but have no doubt they are really the oppressed.