Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value. — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity. — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
It is beyond dispute that President Obama and his aides have an extreme, even unprecedented obsession with concealing embarrassing information, controlling the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“She was great at concealing her feelings, at keeping a stone-face, and hiding all emotions.” — Zøe Haslie Copy Share Image
Who needs a dream? Who needs ambition? Who'd be the fool in my position? Once I had dreams, now they're obsessions. Hopes… — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform.… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
