Obfuscation quotes:

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  • Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
  • Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment. -- Catherine Austin Fitts
  • I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation, -- Jeff Weiner
  • If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth. -- Harvey Bialy
  • Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith... -- Anton Szandor LaVey
  • Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround. -- Nick Turse
  • The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable. -- Julian Baggini
  • Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There is a desperate need for creative Christians to redeem the visual arena from both forms of excess, cutting through all the false glamour, tawdry baseness and dense obfuscation. -- John Walford
  • An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage. -- Karl Jaspers
  • To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process. -- Mark Leibovich
  • My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction. -- Melissa Gilbert
  • I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation. -- Jeff Weiner
  • I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself. -- David Rakoff
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