A Quote by Florence King

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Florence King

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Florence King
American - Novelist
January 5, 1936 - January 6, 2016

Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Florence King

Did you get so caught up in the preoccupancy of a relationship that you lost who you were or were busy in life or career that you, like Adam and Eve, got lost in the garden putting fig leaf after fig leaf title, relationship, this accolade, this saying over you that you forgot who you were and what's life's about? So getting back to the core of that and building life by design, that is authentic.

Paula White

Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.

Martin Luther

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Anne Spencer

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

Ralph Nader

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Mark Twain

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

Saul Bellow

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

John Eldredge

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

Timothy Leary

From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty.

Giorgio Armani

Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

Bethany McLean

'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

Honore de Balzac

Too many developers still treat cultural strategies as a fig leaf to get planning permission, rather than make a thoughtful, genuine commitment to the cultural life of their areas.

Munira Mirza

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.

Joe Hart

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