In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful…

Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from…

— Edward Kennedy

“You can never let your compassion stand in the way of justice because when you do, other people get hurt.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

“Honesty is overrated. As someone once said, 'Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the heart.'" "It was the Duc de Richelieu," said…

— Lisa Kleypas

When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is…

— Henry Miller

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

— Harper Lee

The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

— Ayn Rand

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

— Ayn Rand

“Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams taken before…

— Peter Stafford

“A politician often uses an example or analogy as an attempt to make us forget the question he or she is supposedly answering.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's also no doubt that tax evasion rises along with taxes.

— Michelle Steel

The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.

— George Osborne