QUOTES: 15 Quotes About Con Men and Illusion

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15 quotes about con men, the games such men play, the false reality inhabited by the victims of such men and the illusion which are created by con men.

“Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.”
—E.R. Beadle

“The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.”
—Walter Kirn

“Con men look for human frailty to exploit.”
—Pamela Meyer

“Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.”
—Ally Carter

“I’m a con artist in that I’m an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn’t.”
—John Lithgow

“Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.”
—Aaron Powell

“In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it’s not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.”
—Frank Abagnale

“Actors are con men and con men are actors.”
—Edward Burns

“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.”
—Kurt Vonnegut

“Ponzi and all of his successors tap into a fundamental part of human nature. One part of our brain tells us this is too good to be true. The other side tells us this is too good to miss. The key to any con is getting a mark to tip to the too-good-to-miss side.”
—Mitchell Zuckoff

“Donald Trump is a world-class con artist. He conned all these people that signed up for Trump University. Now he’s trying to do the same thing to Republican voters. He’s trying to convince them that somehow he’s the guy that is going to stand up to illegal immigration, but he hires illegal immigrants, that he’s fighting for American workers, but he’s hiring foreign workers for his hotels, that he’s going to bring back jobs from China and from Mexico, but, in fact, he’s creating jobs in China and Mexico, because that’s where all of his suits and ties that he sells are made.”
—Marco Rubio

“The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He doesn’t go to vote. He’s absent.”
—Donald Trump

“Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.”
—Ben Stein

“But the downside of being con artist is that it is very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.”
—Ally Carter

“The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. All sin is easy after that.”
—Pearl Bailey

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Can the reader speculate how these 15 quotes might possibly apply to the end times?

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THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
–1 Corinthians 15:1-8

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

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[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: January 21, 2019.]

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