Self Deceit

Private life in Tehran as in Beijing is not nearly so corrupted by hypocrisy and self-deceit. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Institutions, like the people who staff them, have a remarkable ability to wrap themselves in self-deceit. ❋ Alan Murray (2011)

What if you must give up kneeling at the altar of self-deceit or self-deprecation and learn to accept and love yourself? ❋ Dr. Judith Rich (2010)

Lightning Rods explores the way in which one man's self-deceit can continuously expand into an increasingly baroque and towering edifice. ❋ Ilana Teitelbaum (2011)

Sometimes an unreliable narrator reveals more about a subject than one who fearlessly confronts it, by showing us the very human qualities of self-deceit and idealism. on 04 Mar 2010 at 8: 25 pm Juliet ❋ Unknown (2010)

She is cold, lucid, almost vitreous in her ability to cut through deceit or, worse yet, self-deceit. ❋ André Aciman (2011)

Its a form of self-deceit that is as old as mankind. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Western vision, based on self-deceit, is extremely dangerous; the Russian vision of politics is far more realistic. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Really, we are under rulership, and there is a long history of self-deceit in our country about who has control and what money can buy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The idea of such ebullient self-deceit is like a kick in the gut. ❋ LAURA BYNUM (2010)

Closer to home, Bush the Lesser falls all over himself doing his imitation of his idol Reagan, mirroring the magical thinking and self-deceit, another made-to-order stand-in for malingering right-wing political, economic and religious conservatives. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our stories, our lives, are the only thing we truly own all to ourselves – these are the things we know, clouded by self-deceit or self-conceit as they may be, they are still rightfully ours. ❋ Unknown (2007)