All 8 Uses of
deception
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Well, this is all that's left of us-and I want no self-deception about it.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- The headlight still hung behind them, like the liquid silver globe of a planet, deceptively close, but belonging to another orbit and another system.†
Chpt 2.10
- He smiled, as if grasping a full confession of the meaning she attached to his name; the smile held an adversary's acceptance of a challenge-and an adult's amusement at the self-deception of a child.†
Chpt 3.1
- The sun had not yet vanished beyond the mountains, but the sky was an even, deep, deceptively clear blue that blended with the blue of invisible clouds into a single spread, hiding the sun; only the edges of the clouds were outlined by a thin thread of flame, and it looked like a glowing, twisted net of neon tubing, she thought …. like a chart of winding rivers …. like …. like the map of a railroad traced in white fire on the sky.†
Chpt 3.2
- With an awed contempt-awed by the enormity of the sight-she wondered what inner degradation those men had to reach in order to arrive at a level of self-deception where they would seek the extorted approval of an unwilling victim as the moral sanction they needed, they who thought that they were merely deceiving the world.†
Chpt 3.3
- Some crudely childish form of self-deception had made them choose to give to this occasion the decorous setting of a formal dinner.†
Chpt 3.5
- Reason is the enemy he dreads and, simultaneously, considers precarious; reason, to him, is a means of deception; he feels that men possess some power more potent than reason-and only their causeless belief or their forced obedience can give him a sense of security, a proof that he has gained control of the mystic endowment he lacked.†
Chpt 3.7
- You must take their side, as fully, consistently and loudly as your capacity for deception will permit.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(deception) the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads