We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Look into the world--how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Everyone went out and bought Sex, it was sold out in two seconds. And then everybody slagged me off. That, to me… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“...my mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species… — Tehmina Durrani Copy Share Image
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy.… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He was more embarrassed and discreet about sex than about things I thought more difficult, like killing people, which pretty much defined… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think that if you see that people are laughing, you know they haven't given up hope. You see that people are… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The art lies in knowing when to wield those arms and when to put them down. I don't think it's a matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
“... it's pointless to think in moral terms when everything is permissible. We have become the people we detest. We have lost… — Eric Gamalinda Copy Share Image
[People who have left the ISIS] say that there comes a moment when the inconsistencies and apparent hypocrisies of their sheikh lets… — Rukmini Maria Callimachi Copy Share Image
“As children we are taught, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!" As adults we teach… — Bryan Oftedahl Copy Share Image
“The famous atheist Christopher Hitchens once declared that ‘You’re expelled from your mother’s uterus as if shot from a cannon, towards a… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Marriage and family are only what we make of them. Without that they’re just a nest of hypocrisy. Garbage and empty words.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Is true ,the sensitive characters have slow reflexes to pain,hurt more and don't understand the hypocrisy of people very easily.They see only… — Laylablack Copy Share Image
The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
“Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Danger. Its name indicates that this is not the straight way but is a way of great variety and many religious philosophies.… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to… — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
“If thou readest the Scripture," said the Jewess, "and the lives of the saints, only to justify thine own license and profligacy,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy. — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall… — Bible Copy Share Image
Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the… — Bible Copy Share Image
“The problem is not that people are called to die to their sin, but rather that too many Christians are lined up… — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
“In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Odasaku," Dazai said softly. "Forgive me for the absurd wording, but—don't go. Find something to rely on. Expect good things to happen… — Kafka Asagiri Copy Share Image
We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
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