concealment quotes

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

I can’t disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses – the wheelchair gives me away.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.