{"quotes":[{"text":"We are all tricked. We think that religion tells us what to believe; but it doesn't, it is telling us what not to believe. Atheism is not the absence of religion; atheism is the most undiluted form of religion: it tells us not to believe in anything at all. Atheists hate the religious and the religious hate atheists, but this is only a deception! We are all deceived! There is only one boat and we are all in it! All at the same time!","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["atheism","deception","dogma","religion","the-great-deception","trickery"],"id":28756,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Politics doesn’t mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","citizen","country","deceit","deceitful","elections","games","government","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","organized","people","philosophy","play","political","political-philosophy","political-science","politicians","politics","public","public-sector","resourceful","resourcefulness","resources","strength","strengthen","trick","trickery","weak","weaken"],"id":32389,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"In this way Fate outplayed the efforts of mortals-simply to amuse itself, one might think.","author":"Erik Valeur","tags":["fate","reality","trickery"],"id":40642,"author_id":"Erik+Valeur"},{"text":"To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours.","author":"Denise Domning","tags":["command","espionage","power","strength","trickery"],"id":65707,"author_id":"Denise+Domning"},{"text":"Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, themost improper to defend us.","author":"Thomas Paine","tags":["common-sense","slavery","subdue","trickery"],"id":69604,"author_id":"Thomas+Paine"},{"text":"Ruric clung to me and shouted, 'Your father.' Looking down below I saw my father running after us, several alarmed guards trailing him. As I watched, the High Lord's slight demon shape began to shimmer in a remarkable transformation that stretched him out and out and up into a huge and long, black serpentine dragon. It was a glorious sight, one I'd never thought to see. He launched himself gracefully into the air amidst shouted protests from his guards, a large dragon smile on his face that showed more free and delighted emotion than I'd ever seen on his face. ...'His poor guards. An eight-member team set out at a dead run after us. They must be having a hissy fit over my father taking off like that, alone, unguarded. Although I couldn't imagine what could possibly be of threat to a four-ton, fire-breathing dragon.","author":"Sunny","tags":["humorous","trickery"],"id":155837,"author_id":"Sunny"},{"text":"To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious zealots - it's biblically accurate and a prophecy fulfilled. The old smoke screen is one of Satan's favorite tricks. He conceals the authentic. He has a persistent strategy of targeting those who remind him of Christianity because he fears those who remind him of Christ.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","bigotry","christ","christianity","fear","hypocrisy","iconoclasm","religion","satan","spiritual","strategy","trickery","zealot"],"id":176982,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["anna-karenina","dishonesty","intellect","pride","stupidity","tolstoy","trickery"],"id":243682,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"As usual, small towns like this were full of those who needed entertainment and whilst money was difficult to earn, the philosophy of giving the people what they wanted, which Franco lived by, had paid dividends.","author":"Christopher Byford","tags":["entertainment","entertainment-industry","for-a-price","fun","giving-the-people-what-they-want","illusion","manipulation","need","small-town","small-towns","trickery"],"id":251356,"author_id":"Christopher+Byford"},{"text":"Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["caught-in-a-lie","cover-up","deceit","disguises","fraud","lies","lying","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","trickery","truth","uncomfortable"],"id":314438,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}