Ambrose Bierce Cheating Quotations

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.