Masquerading Quotes
43 quotes by 42 authors
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government.…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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What does it say about our country when people are so desperate for an alternative to our one-party state masquerading as a two-party state that…
— Jello Biafra
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Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.
— John McCain
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"In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether "we, the people" is a spiritual idea embedded…
— Bill Moyers
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Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading…
— Pat Buchanan
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The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense…
— Thucydides
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My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
— Vernon Howard
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A fetish is a story masquerading as an object.
— Robert Stoller
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So the first thing to be reminded of: love is never a relationship. Then something else is masquerading as love. Maybe you are searching for…
— Rajneesh
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The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd…
— Jack Kevorkian
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An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a new world. The…
— Henri Langlois
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Today's N.R.A. is, in reality, nothing more than a gun industry trade association masquerading as a shooting sports foundation. The organization's agenda is increasingly focused…
— Josh Sugarmann
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
— J I Packer
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No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.
— Donald Miller
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Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old…
— Colin Quinn
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Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
— Tony Wilson
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There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading…
— Camille Paglia
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Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
— Nancy Pearcey
Who Wrote These Masquerading Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 43 Masquerading Quotes, led by these top contributors: