Counterfeit Quotes

“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“If happiness is a hardwired obsession in our brains, one should first and foremost learn to foster an upright quest for unvarnished wellbeing and above all not give in to vain temptations of displaying counterfeit contentment and fake smiling. (Digging for white gold »)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.”
― Anthony Liccione

“They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.”
― Cornelia Funke, The Thief Lord

“In general I lacked principally the ability to provide even in the slightest detail for the real future. I thought only of things in the present and their present condition, not because of thoroughness or any special, strong interest, but rather, to the extent that weakness in thinking was not the cause, because of sorrow and fear – sorrow, because the present was so sad for me that I thought I could not leave it before it resolved itself into happiness; fear, because, like my fear of the slightest action in the present, I also considered myself, in view of my contemptible, childish appearance, unworthy of forming a serious, responsible opinion of the great, manly future which usually seemed so impossible to me that every short step forward appeared to me to be counterfeit and the next step unattainable.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“Once you know true love you will never again be deceived by its counterfeit.”
― Kate McGahan

“You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Look not too long in the face of the fire O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. Tomorrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp - all others but liars!”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“People are eager to walk in other people's pair of shoes that does not fit them. The result is that, their dreams begin to imitate a "tortoise" walk and that I guess is already uncomfortable!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“We must know how to discern between God's truth and the devil's counterfeit.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“There is no way to counterfeit courage; we either have it or we do not”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of them, they are entirely counterfeit and I have been robbed blind by the work of my own hands.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“I don’t feel right about money. Remember, Anisim brought me new roubles and half roubles before the wedding, on St. Thomas’s Sunday? I stashed one package away then, and the rest I mixed in with my own … When my uncle Dmitri Filatych, God rest his soul, was still alive, he used to go for goods all the time, now to Moscow, now to the Crimea. He had a wife, and that same wife, while he went for goods, as I said, used to play around with other men. There were six children. So my uncle would have a drink and start laughing: ‘I just can’t sort out which are mine and which aren’t.’ An easygoing character, that is. And so now I can’t figure out which coins are real and which are false. And it seems like they’re all false.”

“Ah, no, God help you!”

“I’m buying a ticket at the station, I hand over three roubles, and I think to myself, maybe they’re false. And it scares me. I must be sick.”
― Anton Chekhov, Collected Stories

“And here we are. Selling our dreams, to someone else and getting paid for it with the counterfeit. Which we would keep safe all our life, in the hope of using it to buy the dreams of others, in the future again.”
― Akshay Vasu, The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams

“Are there no counterfeits of DON SANTO? Yes there are a few roaches. Don't we have Kamati ya roho chafu (committee of persons with dirty hearts)? Yes we got some rats around us. Are there people who love I? Oooooh yes lots of them. And I love you right back! C'est La vie!”
― DON SANTO

“Better to work towards becoming your greatest version, than be a counterfeit version of someone else.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“We do not counterfeit his own signature, but his nature. (On ne contrefait sa propre - Signature, mais sa nature.)”
― Charles de Leusse

“One can neither win nor succeed, with the tricks and counterfeit, a figure that surpasses and prevails all its desires and greediness.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Then I wonder if perhaps my mother, who had always reflected so perfectly the will of my father, had that night merely been reflecting mine. No, I tell myself. They were her words. But hers or not, those words, which had so comforted and healed me, were hollow. I don't believe they were faithless, but sincerity failed to give them substance, and they were swept away...”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“As I stared back at myself in the reflected grandeur of the room, I remembered what Mr. Kessler had told me: a good counterfeit is as much a work of art as the real thing.”
― Kathleen Tessaro, Rare Objects

“It is fitting to forfeit a counterfeit benefit and trail a befitting profit.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“these coins don't bounce - but you will bounce for the next five years - take him down”
― George Dean, Four Clean Shirts

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“Satan's gift is a mirage. He gives the counterfeit and takes the original.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“But I love you," said the knife —
to the wound that never closed,
to the heart that kept forgiving,
to the memory etched in crimson,
to the soul still trembling from the touch,
to the spirit bent but not broken,
to the flesh that flinched but stayed.

And the wound, in silence, replied:
"I know. That's what hurt the most.”
― D'los Ángeles

“What’s true of counterfeiting money should also be true of counterfeiting humans. If governments took decisive action to protect trust in money, it makes sense to take equally decisive measures to protect trust in humans. Prior to the rise of AI, one human could pretend to be another, and society punished such frauds. But society didn’t bother to outlaw the creation of counterfeit humans, since the technology to do so didn’t exist. Now that AI can pass itself off as human, it threatens to destroy trust between humans and to unravel the fabric of society. Dennett suggests, therefore, that governments should outlaw fake humans as decisively as they have previously outlawed fake money.[54]

The law should prohibit not just deepfaking specific real people—creating a fake video of the U.S. president, for example—but also any attempt by a nonhuman agent to pass itself off as a human. If anyone complains that such strict measures violate freedom of speech, they should be reminded that bots don’t have freedom of speech. Banning human beings from a public platform is a sensitive step, and democracies should be very careful about such censorship. However, banning bots is a simple issue: it doesn’t violate anyone’s rights, because bots don’t have rights.[55]

None of this means that democracies must ban all bots, algorithms, and AIs from participating in any discussion. Digital agents are welcome to join many conversations, provided they don’t pretend to be humans. For example, AI doctors can be extremely helpful. They can monitor our health twenty-four hours a day, offer medical advice tailored to our individual medical conditions and personality, and answer our questions with infinite patience. But the AI doctor should never try to pass itself off as a human.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“God is pulling the curtain on counterfeit love. The stage of deception is collapsing, and truth is taking center.”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood