Top 110 Evasion Quotes & Sayings

Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.

The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences and stage-managed interviews and teams of handlers?

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.

Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops and allies, and combating transnational crime, including sanctions evasion.

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.

A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.

Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.

Most economies have a fair amount of tax evasion, depending on how their data systems are.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

If I lose these tax-evasion cases and others filed by the Philippine government, I could go to jail for 10 to 15 years.

Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.

Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.

People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

Our international banking system allows banks to accept funds gained from tax evasion and other crimes and thereby facilitates and encourages embezzlement by public officials, especially in developing countries, as well as tax evasion and tax avoidance by multinational corporations.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.

A daydream is an evasion.

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.

Atheist is really ?a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,? it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech.

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

Tax avoidance and evasion by the rich undermine democracy by starving social programs and public services. They also send a message to ordinary citizens that the rules of the economic game are rigged against them.

Crucially, African governments must ensure they prioritize the eradication of tax evasion and tax avoidance.

I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. This party does not prey on people's prejudices.

When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.