Masquerading Quotes

43 quotes by 42 authors

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. — John McCain
"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
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
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
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
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else. — Vernon Howard
A fetish is a story masquerading as an object. — Robert Stoller
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
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
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
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
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth. — J I Packer
No love is conditional. If love is conditional, itâ€™s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love. — Donald Miller
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
Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion. — Tony Wilson
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
Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom. — Nancy Pearcey

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