Evasion Quotes

• Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Humor, Acceptance, Reality

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• The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

  Mario Monti

  Government, Two, Priorities

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• Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

  T. S. Eliot

  Poetry, Feelings, May

  T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.149, Harvard University Press

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• When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Sake

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Moon, Guilt

  William Shakespeare (2008). “King Lear: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.

  Marc Andreessen

  Love, War, Tax Evasion

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• Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Way, Synchronicity

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse (p. 193), 1919.

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• People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

  Mario Cuomo

  Simple, People, Political

  "The Quotable Politician". Book by William Whitman, p. 25, 2003.

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• With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.

  Molly Ivins

  Lying, Politician

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• What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.

  Sylvia Plath

  Forgiving, Vision, Mouths

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• Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

  Ben Ames Williams

  Life, Change, Responsibility

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• Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Staying, Solutions, Cowardly

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• The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Truth Is, Easier

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• Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Vanity, People, Deception

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.190, Macmillan

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• soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m., be back in my room by 2, stretched on the bed, waiting for the phone to ring, not answering, my holiday is an evasion, mt reasoning is not.

  Charles Bukowski

  Morning, Holiday, Phones

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• Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

  Langston Hughes

  Inspirational Life, Lying, Half

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.141, University of Missouri Press

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• I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Thinking, Bills, Tax Evasion

  "'The Curse Of Cash' Makes Case For A World Without Paper Money". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2016.

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• Living consciously reflects the conviction that sight is preferable to blindness; that respecting the facts of reality is more satisfying than denying them; that evasion does not make the unreal real or the real unreal; that it is better to correct your mistakes that to pretend they do not exist; and that the more conscious you are of facts bearing on your life and goals, the more wisely and effectively you can act.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Life, Real, Mistake

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• Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is white” or “everybody is black” or “everybody is neither white nor black, but gray,” is not a moral judgment, but an escape from the responsibility of moral judgment.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, Opposites, Two

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.319, Penguin

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• The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, Frustration, Causes

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• For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

  Sylvia Plath

  Jobs, Real, Writing

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• No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.

  John F. Kennedy

  Race, Risk, Deception

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Latin, Real

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Doe, Addresses

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.134, Open Road Media

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• The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and its centrality . . . the overthrow of equilibrium, detaching the mind, furfilled at last, from its material matrix, so that it will henceforth rest with all its weight on God-Omega . . . critical point simultaneously of emergence and emersion, of maturation and evasion.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Mind, End Of The World, Lasts

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (pp. 273, 287 - 289), 1955.

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