The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
There are various ways of keeping truth out of sight.
It is of the essence of traditions that they cover or conceal their humble foundations by erecting impressive edifices on them.
... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub.
I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut down, go into denial, and try to start hiding things from yourself and others, that's when you lock in certain behaviors and attitudes that keep you stuck.
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
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.
Because we know so much more, immediately, about what’s going on all over the world, there is less room to hide.
Designer of the Vietnam Memorial
Quick, someone's coming! Look real!
How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?
If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words!
Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away.
Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.
When I was a boy, we were the only Jewish family in a terribly anti-Semitic neighborhood. Those streets weren't any fun for us but our parents never found that out. In a way, you avoid telling your parents what happened to you during those days.
Each one of them [referring to her family] believed that hiding things is never good and that by sharing them, we could give hope to some people - because so many people we know have suffered some of the same things.
It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.
Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.
It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.
By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.
My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.
Amy adored both the new look and the new person it allowed her to be. Following the photo shoot, she wore her bruises to the dry cleaner and the grocery store. Most people nervously looked away, but on the rare occasions someone would ask what happened, my sister would smile as brightly as possible, saying, 'I'm in love. Can you believe it? I'm finally, totally in love, and I feel great.
