(214 quotes found)
“Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.”
Paul A. Samuelson
“The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible”
Hannah Moore
“Don't you see, don't you see, that the charade is over? And all the "Best Deceptions" and "Clever Cover Story" awards go to you. So kiss me hard 'cause this will be the last time that I let you.”
Dashboard Confessional
“It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.”
Robert Motherwell
“Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.”
Claude Debussy
“Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.”
John O'Toole
““In pride is self-deception and no more so than in he who convinces himself that he is humble.””
Francis Mac Donald
“People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?”
“[Such is] a deceptive cloak of racial consensus, ... The Pitfalls of Racial Reasoning.”
Cornel West
“Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.”
John Wanamaker
