Masked Ball Quotes

#1. Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.

Gaston Leroux

#4. Philosophy has been a masked ball in which a religious image of humankind is renewed in the guise humanist ideas of progress and enlightenment. Even philosophy's greatest unmaskers have ended up as figures in the masquerade. Removing the masks from our animal faces is a task that has hardly begun.

John N. Gray

#5. We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

Rani Mukerji

#6. The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them.

Alex Berenson

#7. Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support it.

David J. Lieberman

#8. Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.

Luc De Clapiers

#9. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James

#10. The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.

Sting

#11. Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Ronald Reagan

#13. In a cult, you have two identities: your cult identity and your authentic self. Most of the time I operated from my cult identity, which was pliant, submissive and obedient. But when I was pushed to the point where it felt like my survival was at stake, my authentic self came to the fore.

Carolyn Jessop

#14. A bad peace is even worse than war.

Tacitus