We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
What gives you the right to judge someone when you're no better yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious. — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“...above all things; to remember that hypocrisy is the most hopeless as well as the meanest of crimes...” — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he… — William Swan Plumer Copy Share Image
To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy¦.th ats all we see and do today!! It may be helpful in fooling others and creating a false impression, but dragging… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The United States is now harbouring Luis Posada Carriles. His continued freedom mocks victims of terrorism everywhere. It also shows how heavily… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“Yes, Bush spouted a bunch of religious crap, but at least he didn't believe in it. Give the man a beer. Sometimes… — Earl Lee Copy Share Image
“Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“I consider the most terrifying verse in all Scripture to be Matthew 12:36: “But I say to you that for every idle… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“None was more indifferent to convention than herself, and the marriage tie especially excited her ridicule, but she despised entirely those who… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. — Robert Smith Surtees Copy Share Image
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image