Concealed Quotes · Page 8

The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind…

— Jacques Barzun

But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The biggest gain is concealed in the waiver.

— Dirk Deichmann

Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

— Seneca the Younger

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

— Thomas Hardy

Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.

— Publilius Syrus

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

— Sophocles

I find this corpse guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and I fine it $40.

— Roy Bean

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.

— John Dryden

I have a concealed carry, so I actually have a few guns that I keep. I keep them in my big, giant…

— Patti Harrison

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the…

— Socrates

Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

— Horace

I have never concealed my dual citizenship. People involved in state business should probably declare their dual citizenship if they have it.

— Gennady Timchenko

Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside…

— George Orwell

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

— John Osborne

Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our…

— Leigh Hunt

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

— Theodor Adorno

...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the…

— Salman Rushdie

Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his…

— David Hume

The female covers her breasts, and then proceeds to redefine their shape with a brassiere. This sexual signaling device may be padded…

— Desmond Morris

Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults…

— John R. Lott Jr

However small your garden, you must provide for two of the serious gardener's necessities, a tool shed and a compost heap. A…

— Ann Scott

The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds…

— Confucius

I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for…

— Nick Lowe

I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred…

— Albert Claude

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

In every problem, there's a concealed solution...locking itself underneath...unlock,peruse,find and solve

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

— Groucho Marx

Some people act as if there were a penalty for carrying concealed troubles. They exhibit them at every opportunity, begging for sympathy,…

— Alice Hegan Rice

The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed…

— Edward Gibbon

The United States government was proud that, although perhaps 100,000 Iraqis had died in the Gulf War of 1991, there were only…

— Howard Zinn

The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom…

— Stewart Udall

And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did.…

— Dianne Feinstein

The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in…

— Marguerite Duras

If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price…

— John Maynard Keynes

In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got…

— Johann Gottfried Herder