Deception Tactics Quotes

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away.

We fill the woods with invasive primates camouflaged to look like piles of leaves who sneak around, sprinkling estrus doe urine and manipulating gadgets that sound like antlers clashing.

Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.

White Paper has effectively exposed certain aspects of PBSUCCESS ... If possible, fabricate big human interest story, like flying saucers, birth sextuplets in remote area to take play away.

Confuse the enemy. Keep him in the dark on your intentions. Sometimes what seems a victory isn't really a victory and sometimes a defeat isn't really a defeat. Whether in attacking, counterattacking, or defensive tactics, the idea of attacking should remain central, to always keep the initiative.

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.

Obama has figured out the best method to prepare the way for his verbal Houdini acts: Use political noise as the tune-up din before the aria. Perhaps his body temperature is so low, it sometimes takes him too long to break out the song.

Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

I had been given some training in my past CIA career to do just this sort of thing ... floating forged newspaper accounts, telegrams, that sort of thing.

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit...

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.

He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.