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Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.
Michel Foucault
Authority is acceptable only if it conceals a large portion of itself. Its victory is contingent upon its capacity to veil its own workings.
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Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious
Rumi
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The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.
Debbie Ford
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Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
Alan Moore
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All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.
John Dillinger
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As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
Erich Fromm
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Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.
Martin Buber
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The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
William Golding
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Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey
Matsuo Basho
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White people are getting more and more angry every day, Donald Trump was elected that the mask of civility - like an onion peeling - is being peeled off. Now naked hatred, not only in word but in deed, is being openly shown to us.
Louis Farrakhan
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The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
Agatha Christie
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The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
Emile M. Cioran
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What can I say? Chicks dig the mask.
Kane
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..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.
Frances Conroy
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Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.
Rajneesh
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
Salman Rushdie
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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
John Fowles
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Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.
Stephen Dunn
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So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.
Suzanne Collins
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For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
Zhang Ziyi
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Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.
Anna Maria Chavez
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No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
Arthur Schnitzler
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The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.
Frantz Fanon
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The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
Benito Mussolini
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The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.
Emily Blunt
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Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
Frank Herbert
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Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
Guy Debord
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There is a King Who is aware of every Mask you put on
Rumi
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All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.
Steven Millhauser
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Make sure you have your own mask on, before helping others with theirs.
Daniel Handler
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Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.
Stephen Harper
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We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.
Patrick Rothfuss
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The scariest thing in the world is losing your mask.
Patrick Roy
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
Lloyd Alexander
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Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.
Hugh Laurie
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I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
Viola Davis
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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
Graham Greene