Robert Farrar Capon Quotes

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

There are various ways of keeping truth out of sight.

We used to think that secrecy was perhaps the greatest enemy of democracy, and as long as there was no suppression or censorship, people could be trusted to make the informed decisions that would preserve our free society, but we have learned in recent years that the techniques of misinformation and misdirection have become so refined that, even in an open society, a cleverly directed flood of misinformation can overwhelm the truth, even though the truth is out there, uncensored, quietly available to anyone who can find it.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised.

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.

Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar

Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.

There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.

In our country they do not permit any information to be X-rayed through and through, nor any discussion to encompass all the facets of a subject. All this is invariably suppressed at the very beginning, so no ray of light should fall on the naked body of truth. And then all this is piled up in one formless heap covering many years, where it languishes for whole decades, until all interest and all means of sorting out the rusty blocks from all this trash are lost.

I have never lied, “ Mr. Barris counters, standing as well. “I do not share what I am not at liberty to say. I gave my word and I intend to keep it but I have never lied to you. You never even asked me, you assumed I knew nothing.

...people with nothing to declare carry the most.