Deceptive Language Quotes

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action … Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

We are in the middle of a big swamp of ignorance that is taught by a lot of nonsense, propaganda, absurdity, amalgams. I have a hard time listening to any speech. You feel like you want to stop the TV every two seconds to rephrase them, because it's lie after lie, turning stuff upside down, and you can't follow that. That's the trap.

Donald Trump ran for president on a promise to 'drain the swamp.' I agreed with that particular statement. Unfortunately, he didn't mean what he said.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void.

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

In this region declarations, speeches, words are worthless.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."

I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.

No subject over the past 30 years has lent itself so readily to politicians memorizing and repeating combinations of words without the slightest idea of what they are talking about.

Language disguises thought.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?