Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. — Vladimir Lenin
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has. — Charles Caleb Colton
Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not. — Mason Cooley
We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence. — Lord Chesterfield
One dupe is as impossible as one twin. — John Sterling
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness. — Honore de Balzac
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. — Edmund Burke
Dope Quotes
You can't be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody. Don't lose the ones you love trying to please the world — Trent Shelton
When lifes seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness. — Kid Cudi
I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case. — Chance the Rapper
Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls. — Snoop Dogg
It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend. — Louis Armstrong
Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way. — Billie Holiday
If you are what you eat then feed me dope. — Big Daddy Kane
My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone. — Lance Armstrong
I've known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope. — Kanye West
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. — Elbridge Gerry
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy. — Dawn Powell
PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with. — Sayings
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. — William Beveridge
Beer drinkers have been duped by mass marketing into the belief that it makes sense to drink only one brand of beer. In truth, brand loyalty in beer makes no more sense than 'vegetable loyalty' in food. Can you imagine it? “No thanks, I'll pass on the mashed potatoes, carrots, bread and roast beef. Me, I'm strictly a broccoli man.' — Stephen Beaumont
It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes. — Niccolo Machiavelli
The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself. — John Calvin
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. — Giacomo Casanova
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. — William Hazlitt
As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. — Ezra Cornell
I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times equal to the national defence...The facts, which from our own experience forbid a reliance of this kind, are too recent to permit us to be the dupes of such a suggestion. — Alexander Hamilton
An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful. — Manohla Dargis
The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it. — Samuel Laman Blanchard
We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct. — Diane de Poitiers
Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them. — Seth Klarman
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress. — Charles Caleb Colton
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The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous. — Henri Frederic Amiel
War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game. — Thomas Paine
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists. — Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? — Jean De La Bruyere
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. — William Hazlitt
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. — Giacomo Casanova
[My father] had this quirky thing of not believing in gravity. And giving me a constant headache about that one. He would say if I showed any interest in gravity, I was becoming a dupe of the system. He could see indications I was beginning to believe in it. — Paul Laffoley
The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his. — Bill Vaughan
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep. — Jane Addams
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare. — Honore de Balzac
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come. — Jane Addams
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation. — Jonathan Swift
No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid. — Louis Pasteur
People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons — George Bernard Shaw
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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