Quotes of Exposing - somelinesforyou

“ Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside. ”

- Jose Raul Bernardo

“ Nothing in poverty so ill is borne as it's exposing men to grinning scorn. ”

- John Oldham

“ Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids. ”

- Aristotle

“ Violence just hurts those who are already hurt…Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. ”

- Cesar Chavez

“ Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany… ”

- Hermann Goering

“ Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship… ”

- Hermann Goering

“ Comedy naturally wears itself out — destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men… ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others. ”

- Janet Malcolm
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