Quotes About Fig leaf

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Do books, after all, change anything? For all their proverbial liberalism, have they made the world more liberal? Or have they offered the fig leaf that allows us to go on as we were, liberal in our reading and conservative in our living. Perhaps art is more part of the problem than the solution; we may be going to hell, but look how well we write about it, look at our paintings and operas and tragedies.

But they were at least allowed to retain the fig leaf of royal status.

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.