The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
This is the day when people reciprocally offer, and receive, the kindest and the warmest wishes, though, in general, without meaning them… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can't hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth.” — Joel McDonald Copy Share Image
In Judaism, the temple was the most holy site in the world. But if you extend that argument as a metaphor, and… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker. — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a "surly, illmannered, badtempered fellow." ... Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Don't pound your chest when it's all good, then blame God when it's all bad.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“Michael Ledeen—a contributing editor of National Review and a Freedom Scholar at the influential neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute—wrote on the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
“Mankind's biggest blunder, ignorance. Mankind's second, infallible.” — M.T. Dismuke Copy Share Image
