Hidden Agenda Quotes

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.

The whole of Britain’s international trading system, foreign policy and even Britain’s various conflicting political parties were maintained for one reason; and for one reason alone – that the money power of the world may rule the British people and through them they may rule mankind.

For the Order wishes to be secret, and to work in silence, for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers …

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Invisible government

… a conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man.

People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers are always selling somebody out.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

This is just the old loyalty oath in new clothing.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

Never trust anyone without a vested interest.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

People would meet in darkness behind closed doors. It was almost that they seemed ashamed at what they were doing.

Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president

Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

The word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away.

Who's with her?" Roarke asked, though he already knew. It was just like her. "With her? Oh, ah, hmmm. Webster." Silence fell, a clatter of broken bricks. Peabody folded her hands in her pockets and prepared for the explosion to follow. "I see." When Roarke simply turned back to the screen and continued, she didn't know whether to be relieved or scared to death.

A man always has two reasons for what he does—a good one and the real one.

We forget that everything has a meaning, everything has an impact on you. It's what we call soft power today. Nothing is innocent.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in a box - to say, 'Oh, since this work deals with surface desires at times, this is about consumerism.' And of course, the base of the work is... not about economics at all.