Quotes About Deniability

#1. We use committees for all the ulterior purposes for which they might have been designed: diffusion of executive responsibility, plausible deniability, misdirection, providing the appearance of activity without the substance, and protecting the guilty.

Charles Stross

#2. The important thing is that we maintain plausible deniability.

Richard M. Nixon

#3. Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.

Karen Joy Fowler

#4. If it be not destiny, then surely there is plausible deniability, which in the parlance of politics is the same thing.

Christopher Moore

#5. It's called obfuscation in the interest of deniability. You might say it's our lingua franca.

Robert Ludlum

#6. No one talked about the questions, because talking ruined plausible deniability. Talking burst the bubble of innocence. Talking ended the happily ever after. These were the truths they believed. And they were lies. They should have talked while there was still something to say.

Courtney C. Stevens

#7. You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

Walter Kirn

#8. The true purpose of the various directives, regulations, and pocket-sized codes of conduct handed out to troops was not to implement genuine safeguards for noncombatants, but to give the military a paper trail of plausible deniability.

Nick Turse

#9. According to these new rules, the U.S. government was free to use the methods it had developed in the 1950s under layers of secrecy and deniability - only now it was out in the open, without fear of prosecution.

Naomi Klein

#10. It's the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be
no depth, no substance.

A.M. Jenkins

#11. What he wanted was very near. It was typical of the monstrous, egregious, laughable irony which dominated his life that with every dragging lift of his arms, he should be saying over and over, 'Not yet.'

Dorothy Dunnett

#12. He could be kind, when kindness lured a person to take a sip of poison.

Veronica Rossi

#13. One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

Paul Valery

#14. Their youth is touching, but I know I can't be deceived by it. The young ones are often the most dangerous, the most fanatical, the jumpiest with their guns. They haven't yet learned about existence through time. You have to go slowly with them.

Margaret Atwood

#15. There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

Charles Baxter

#16. Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate. Plutarch stepped out of the stream to create an essayistic form that relied on a digressive structure and down to earth anecdotes.

John D'Agata

#17. I tried to play every sport. I wasn't great at most of them, but at least I tried!

Britt Robertson

#18. I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

Lady Gaga

#19. No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it ... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.

Sylvia Kristel

#20. Folks double my age and older often run down a conversation tracking a vanishing world that will, with the passing of their memory, vanish entirely.

Charles D'Ambrosio

#21. We're instant ambassadors. Just add robot body and voila! If they'd told us anything real, they might have had to kill us.

Brenda Cooper