The Mask Quotes

The Mask Quote of the day

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.

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.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious

Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

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.

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

I wear the mask. It does not wear me.

Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

No amount of makeup can mask an ugly heart.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born

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.

Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

A mask tells us more than a face.

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey

The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

We wear the mask that grins and lies.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.