Ostensible Quotes

18 quotes by 15 authors

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. — Emile M. Cioran
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is… — Sun Tzu
The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security… — Walt Whitman
A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity — Joseph Goebbels
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead
The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not… — Marvin E. Frankel
That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from… — Henry Knox
In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another government for the… — David Cortright
We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not… — Chaim Weizmann
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the… — Breyten Breytenbach
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. — Theodore Roosevelt
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to… — Theodore Roosevelt
The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge.… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Will appear first, I believe, as a conscious organization of intelligent and quite possibly in some cases, wealthy men, as a movement having distinct social… — H.G. Wells

Who Wrote These Ostensible Quotes

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