top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Deceit quotes
"Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern propriety-and had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two former masked the latter, like leaves covering a snare. You didn't notice the steel jaws until they were impaled in your flesh, and by then it was already far too late to run."
Author Name
Personal Development
"People lie and scam because you are too stupid to understand it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit."
Author Name
Personal Development
"So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error, but some sober browWill bless it and approve it with a text,Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Moshe Sharett
"Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine."
Politics
"I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times."
War
"I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant."
Neighbors
"As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets."
Forget
"So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance."
People
"We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face."
May
"As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories."
Vision
"A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless."
Feelings
"Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time."
Time
"When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs."
Result
bottom of page