Quotes About Guise

What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.

If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience.

something that was called an agreement is not necessarily always that. On the contrary, one party might advance their self-interest under the guise of a common decision, and in the long run it often becomes clear that someone is suffering, despite assurances to the contrary.

To fight demons, one must assume the guise of a demon

the populations being discussed as 'Muslims' were already racialized as 'Pakis' and 'Arabs'. So the point about whether Muslims are a race or not is somewhat beside the point. 'Muslims' have only appeared in the frame of 'race' after they had already put in an appearance in the framework of racialization, but under another guise, before they themselves began to assert the Islamic aspect of their identities,

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as "moral indignation," which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. The "indignant" person has for once the satisfaction of despising and treating a creature as "inferior," coupled with the feeling of his own superiority and rightness.

Anyone who practices ad hoc development under the guise of agile methods is an imposter.

How would the world change, Father Gervase wondered, if one could look for and see goodness, whatever human guise it was cloaked in, if one could see that potential in everyone and acknowledge not only the piousness of the saints but the complications of their past, the potential in sinners before they became saints.

That is why there are forces which you call evil. In this universe there is no evil; all is good that comes to us from I´shvara, but it sometimes comes in the guise of evil that, by opposing it, we may draw out our strength.

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

werewolves were members of the old Danish families who owned slaves. Their transformation was God's punishment for their wrongdoings. You could spy their teeth and claws at night, even when they were in their human guise, so they often wore gloves and scarves, even in the hottest times of the year.

Thomas Aquinas puts it nicely when he says, "Every time someone sins, they're sinning under the guise of good.

The real Duc de Guise had been assassinated in 1588 at the Château de Blois, which was the architectural inspiration for the house at 660 Fifth

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.

What more perfect guise for a vampire, I thought, than that of a rock musician?

Under the guise of BDS, Jewish students on college campuses across the United States are being subjected to blatant anti-Semitism.

People use the guise of art, and artistic expression, to do all kinds of hateful things. It's like Trump and everybody else using the guise of humor to say hateful things, the excuse being, 'I was just being funny.'

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination.

I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination.

There is even a tradition in the Bhagvata Purana that the greatest sages 'range over the world in the guise of mad persons' whilst imparting wisdom.

Our freedoms are shared freedoms: they are bound up in each other. The ability to confront oppression in the guise of religion is linked to our ability to worship as we choose: both are acts of expression.