Disguise Quotes - Page 23

• Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

  Thomas Szasz

  Pills, Moral, Bitter

  Thomas Szasz (2017). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.156, Routledge

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• History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Damage Is Done, History Repeats Itself, Cunning

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Pain, Suffering, Felt

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• It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion.

  Robertson Davies

  Talking, Names, Stupidity

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995”

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• Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Lying, Mirrors, Low Self Esteem

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• You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

  Elvis Presley

  Wise, Angel, Evil

  Song: (You're The) Devil In Disguise, Album: ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits

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• How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

  Laini Taylor

  Desperation, Instinct, Possibility

  Laini Taylor (2014). “Dreams of Gods and Monsters: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.162, Hachette UK

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• From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion to a higher good comes our propensity to the foulest atrocities. From our commitment to ideals comes our excuse to hate. Since the beginning of history, we have been blinded by evil's ability to don a selfless disguise. We have failed to see that our finest qualities often lead us to the actions we most abhor, murder, torture, genocide and war.

  Howard Bloom

  War, Hate, Commitment

  "The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History". Book by Howard Bloom, 1997.

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• Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is a form of theft. Its supporters attempt to disguise its essential character by claiming that democratic procedures give it legitimacy, but this justification is specious. Theft is theft, whether it be carried out by one thief or by a hundred million thieves acting in concert. And it is impossible to found a good society on the institutionalization of theft.

  Robert Higgs

  Character, Mean, Compassion

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• The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Reality, Wish, Different

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• I don't care if they're Republican liberals or Democrat liberals, they're still liberals. They're not 'moderates.' Don't hit me with that. There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Care, Republican, Democrat

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• After I removed all the cultural coatings and traditions that disguise each religion, I discovered the soul to be the same in all of them. Therefore, it is hard for me to say I am just one, when my heart recognizes the truths in them all.

  Suzy Kassem

  Heart, Soul, Tradition

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• Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes.

  William March

  Hate, Assuming

  William March, William T. Going, Richard Brough (2011). “99 Fables”, p.20, University of Alabama Press

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• For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

  David Bowie

  Opposites, Looks, Environment

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• Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes you won't be on the beneficial end of it but either way it's a blessing in disguise.

  Behdad Sami

  Blessing, Everything Happens For A Reason, Way

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• When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

  Henry Rollins

  Blessing, Adults, World

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• Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of the chain, sometimes people won't give you honest feedback because they're afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Giving, Honest Feedback

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• Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.

  John le Carre

  Artist, Assassins, Smugglers

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• Sometimes I think I disguise myself as a teacher in order to make the pictures I need to see.

  Wendy Ewald

  Teacher, Thinking, Order

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• My staged work looks so real that people actually take it for documentary. But, in fact, that is my intention, to disguise the manufacturedness of it. Half of my work, or probably more than that, is staged.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Real, People, Looks

  Interview with Peter Halley and Bob Nickas, www.indexmagazine.com. 1997.

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• We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.

  Mother Teresa

  Mean, Long, Giving

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• Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Humility, Pride

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• I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

  Jermain Defoe

  Religious, Disappointment, Blessing

  "Prayer helped Defoe bounce back". Interview with "Football Focus", news.bbc.co.uk. December 22, 2006.

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• We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.

  Alex Campbell

  Blessing, Appreciate, May

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  Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.

  Jim Morrison

  Drunk, Drink, I Can

  Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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