Guise Quotes - Page 6

• State violence operating under the guise of personal safety and security, while parading as a bulwark of democracy, actually does the opposite and cancels out democracy as the incommensurable sharing of existence that makes the political possible.

  Henry Giroux

  Opposites, Safety, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Careers, Two, Iraq

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.

  Rob Roberge

  Matter, Fiction, Scene

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed to be writing honestly from their own experiences, whether they presented it in the guise of fiction or not.

  Kevin Keck

  Reading, Writing, Advice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

  Terry Pratchett

  Humanity, Towns, Lenses

  "A life in writing: Terry Pratchett" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Stories, Want, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• He who desires to become aware of the hidden light must lift the feeling of fear up to its source. And he can accomplish this if he judges himself and all he does. For then he sheds all fears and lifts fear that has fallen down. But if he does not judge himself, he will be judged from on high, and this judgment will come upon him in the guise of countless things, and all the things in the world will become messengers of God who carry out the judgment on this man.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Light, Judging

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• When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.

  Richard Russo

  Thinking, Looks, Odd

  "Richard Russo on Painting a Canvas With His Novels". HBO Interview, www.hbo.com.

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• Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the common humanity shared by us all lies at the heart of our difficulties. To overcome it, we should begin to develop, from the level of the individual through that of society to the world at large, what I call a sense of universal responsibility; a deep respect for every living being who lives on this one small planet and calls it home.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Home, Heart

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• I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Government, Extinction

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• Liberalism in various guises - feminism, the sexual revolution, gay activism - has been at war with marriage and family for several decades now. And when do-gooders look around at the wreckage of human lives caused by disintegrating families, they call for government to act as father, mother, brother, and sister.

  Mona Charen

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• Even if you want to conjure up some things, they are not reason enough to rip America apart, particularly under the guise of fairness or whatever. It's destructive.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Rip, America, Want

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• Collectivism takes on many guises and seldom uses its own real name. Words like 'community' and 'social' soothe us into thinking that collectivist decision-making is somehow higher and nobler than individual or 'selfish' decision-making. But the cold fact is that communities do not make decisions. Individuals who claim to speak for the community impose their decisions on us all.

  Doug Bandow

  Real, Selfish, Thinking

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• Gone are the days when African leaders used to misrule their people and the rest of Africa was quiet under the guise of what was called non-interference.

  Raila Odinga

  People, Leader, Gone

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• Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Clever, Self Esteem, Fall

  Source: www.dinnerpartydownload.org

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• You Can't Kill the Spirit resonates with the voices and power of women around the globe who have refused to be either passive or violent but instead act firmly and imaginatively to oppose oppression in its many guises. A wonderful tonic for activists and a treasure for those who teach, these stories bring women's history to life.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Voice, Stories, Treasure

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• Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

  Ouida

  Charity, Delicacy, Courtesy

  Ouida (1890*). “Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy”

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• Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of the myth of natural harmony all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds (all structures well designed for a definite purpose in this case). It is, indeed, the vision of foolish Dr. Pangloss, so vividly satirized by Voltaire in Candide the world is not necessarily good, but it is the best we could possibly have.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Long, Vision, Drs

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

  Kate Chopin

  Editors, Giving, Secret

  1899 'On Certain Brisk Days', in the St Louis Post -Dispatch, 26 Nov.

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• There’s beauty all around our paths,
  If but our watchful eyes
  Can trace it ’midst familiar things,
  And through their lowly guise.

  Felicia Hemans

  Beauty, Gratitude, Eye

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1849). “Poems of Felicia Hemans”, p.370

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• Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Self, Littles, Common

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• The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of religion, science or reason, imagine that we can free ourselves from the limitations of human nature and perfect the human species.

  Chris Hedges

  Atheist, Perfect, Doe

  "On Secular Fundamentalism" by Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com. April 7, 2008.

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• I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'.

  Bill Hicks

  Artist, Perception, Western Culture

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• Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age, dress, or color - distinguishes a man who will harm a woman from one who will not.

  Marilyn French

  Men, Color, Age

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• The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

  Emanuel Celler

  Party, Hymns, People

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