Fooled Quotes

“Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.”
― Dennis E. Adonis

“A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Because we refuse to acknowledge something doesn’t mean that it’s not staring us right in the face.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Of necessity, indoctrination must legitimize itself by dressing itself in the garb of ‘education’ lest we discover that we are being robbed of our ability to think independently by being led to believe that we are thinking independently.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When someone tells you that there is no agenda, you can be certain there is nothing but an agenda.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“One of the most dangerous things in life is to live in the worship of something that we don’t even realize we’re worshipping.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Lulled by his conversation, I let myself believe I had fooled him at the very moment he was fooling me.

He was as deceptive as the rest of his family. More, maybe.

He never let down his guard with me, not once.

Too late, I understand what's terrifying about his charm. He seems entirely open when he is unknowable. Every smile is painted on, a mask.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“When you've lost everything and the only thing holding you up is the ground you're standing on, you trust that and, in its grace, you start the walk again.”
― Kayo K.

“The best way to engage the fool is to do nothing that would cause them to believe that we are otherwise. For then, the fool becomes the fooled.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A mirage is an illusion of what we need projected onto the landscape of our lives. And if our lives are filled with mirages, they are in fact filled with nothing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Far too often we miss life by doing something that we call ‘life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“With the benefit of hindsight, I realized that I was fooled into working at the biologically toxic Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO).”
― Steven Magee

“Sometimes it seems that giving up is really not about surrender at all. Rather, it’s about the person trying to convince themselves that they were actually fighting in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“How often have we taken up arms in some crusade that appeared so impeccably brilliant, indisputably praiseworthy, and immeasurably grand that we came to believe that the crusade itself transcended all of the truth that would show it to be none of those things? And in the end, how many times were the arms that we took up in such a crusade discharged in our direction?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Impossible to find as otherness per se (obviously a dream); but at the same time---­ irreducible as a symbolic rule of the game, as a rule of the game that governs the world. The promiscuity and general confusion in which differences exist do not affect this rule of the game as such: it is not a rational law, nor is it a demonstrative process - we shall never have either metaphysical or scientific proof of this principle of foreignness and incomprehensibility: we simply have to accept it.
The worst thing here is understanding, which is sentimental and useless.
True knowledge is knowledge of exactly what we can never understand in the other, knowledge of what it is in the other that makes the other not oneself - and hence someone who can in no sense become separated from oneself, nor alienated by any look of ours, nor instituted by us in either identity or difference. (Never question others about their identity. In the case of America, the question of American identity was never at issue: the issue was America's foreignness.) If we do not understand the savage, it is for the same reason that he does not understand himself (the term 'savage' conveys this foreignness better than all later euphemisms).
The rule of exoticism thus implies that one should not be fooled by understanding, by intimacy, by the country, by travel, by picturesqueness, or by oneself. The realm of radical exoticism, moreover, is not necessarily a function of travel: 'It is not essential, in order to feel the shock [of the exotic], to revive the old-fashioned episode of the voyage. [ ... ] The fact remains that such an episode and its setting are better than any other subterfuge for reaching this brutal, rapid and pitiless hand-to-hand conflict and making each blow count.' Travel is a subterfuge, then - but it is the most appropriate one of all.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“A pantry neatly stocked to capacity with a colorful array of empty containers might have the appearance of being full, but appearances won’t feed anyone.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Whatcha do to him?" asked Wat, striding over to his master, shaking him. When there was no response, he turned to her and snarled. "If I find out you've done anything..."
"You'll do what? Tell me," said Rosamund, smiling sweetly. "Complain I didn't press charges after you stole those candlesticks from your master, or the silver urn?"
"I didn't steal them from my master---he was dead."
"Oh, I wasn't referring to Sir Everard---" Rosamund gave a pointed look at Aubrey. "According to your new master, this is his house. His property. And that includes everything within its walls."
Understanding he'd just admitted to the crime, Wat ceased to challenge her and, with a groan, heaved Aubrey up under the arms and managed to throw him across his shoulders.
"I think your master needs a good rest," said Rosamund, following him from the room.
Flashing her a look of pure resentment, Wat knew better than to argue this time. The young woman he'd left to fend for herself was not the same one he faced now.”
― Karen Brooks, The Chocolate Maker's Wife

“Adding to or subtracting from the truth is based on the illusion that we’re actually doing either.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To sacrifice our principles on the altar of greed is to be fooled into believing that that’s the only thing that we sacrificed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I would encourage you not to confuse a passing drizzle with a brainstorm. Because if you do, it won’t take a meteorologist to tell you what’s coming, and it’ll take more than an umbrella to protect you from it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is genius that greed can create utterly destructive desires that are cleverly fashioned so as to be entirely impermeable to the very truth that is capable of keeping us from being destroyed by those desires. And while that is certainly genius, it is genius abused.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you find yourself enamored by the genius of men I would suggest that you are too easily pleased and too quickly fooled.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We are all too easily bribed by words written to appeal to our mortal appetites, and we find ourselves soured by those that change our hearts.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Most people live life without ever really knowing what they lived simply because they didn’t live it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I was a fool,' I say, because I might as well admit it. 'I gave up the bird in my hand for two in the bush.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Look at you. You'd trade anything for a warm look. I'm telling you here and now, I want to see the starch in your character cultivated. If you are looking for reassurance, you can be fooled. If you forget yourself and study others, you will not be fooled.”
― John Patrick Shanley, Doubt, a Parable

“The biggest fool is the one that believes that they’re the only one doing the fooling.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If there is no intent to act on the intent, you have a ruse of the most intentional sort.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Distractions mimic achievements.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A thousand lies do not have the force to produce one truth, other than the truth that they are lies.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough