Masks Quotes

208 Masks quotes by 182 unique authors

TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons,… — Bill McKibben
It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath.… — Nadine Gordimer
Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society. — Robert Greene
At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil. — Jon Snow
True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love… — Adyashanti
Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike… — Michael Arndt
This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe,… — Jorge Luis Borges
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions… — Alfred Jarry
Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other. — Guy Debord
I really believe that women have much easier access to their souls than men do. Because as men we're taught to wear masks, to drown… — John Rzeznik
You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams. — Rita Rudner
No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love. — Arthur Schnitzler
Volcanic ash will be experienced in all parts of your world, as the volcanoes around your earth are simultaneously activated. Face masks and goggles will… — Esther Hicks
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. — Vernon Howard
We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power… — Richard Bach
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises — Dennis Potter
If you want the great and mighty things God has for you, you must get to the root of anger and deal with it. Get… — Joyce Meyer
The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death that material prosperity… — Pentti Linkola
The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those who refuse out… — Hakim Bey
A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is… — Sydney J. Harris
... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies is… — Unknown Author
As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of… — Wendy Doniger
False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks. — Alexander Herzen
If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but… — Rajneesh

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