Quotes about hypocrisy
hypocrisy together here-and-there
We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing. John Selden
hypocrisy sin reserves
To condemn your sin in another is hypocrisy. Not to condemn is to reserve your right to sin. James Richardson
hypocrisy devil intolerance
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. James Russell Lowell
hypocrisy religion christianity
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors. Laurence Sterne
hypocrisy contradicting always-wrong
If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong. Luc de Clapiers
hypocrisy people unhappy
People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way. Mignon McLaughlin
hypocrisy people moral
People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. Ralph Waldo Emerson
hypocrisy satisfaction politics
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
hypocrisy community roles
One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith ... Susan Sontag
hypocrisy devil hamlet-and-ophelia
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. Thomas Fuller
hypocrisy
I've never been anti-sex or anti-sexuality. I'm just anti-hypocrisy. Siouxsie Sioux
hypocrisy politics moral
Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy. Reinhold Niebuhr
hypocrisy evil example
A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil. Pope Francis
hypocrisy world way
This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit. Pete Seeger
hypocrisy wish fool
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned. Quintilian
hypocrisy suffering torture
To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures. Victor Hugo
hypocrisy facts horrible
Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
hypocrisy tree world
Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs? Richard Bach
hypocrisy financial economic
No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest. Thomas Piketty
hypocrisy burden villainy
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. Samuel Johnson
hypocrisy racism gone
There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground. Richard Pryor
hypocrisy sides comedy
For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see. Robin Williams
hypocrisy enemy superstitions
There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Robert Green Ingersoll
hypocrisy villain burden
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.
hypocrisy parent world
When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy. Vivienne Westwood
hypocrisy sorrow coins
The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
hypocrisy frightened
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
hypocrisy religion infidelity
Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine. Henry David Thoreau
hypocrisy hens meat
What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters. Franz Grillparzer
hypocrisy needles know-how
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend. Jewel
hypocrisy failing mask
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish? Georges Bernanos
hypocrisy kitchen hell
There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen. Ethel Waters
hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion. Hosea Ballou