“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
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
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
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
How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“I made up three lists: Candidate's Accomplishments (real and imaginary), Accusations Against Opponent (including rumours, allegations, innuendos, and lies), and Empty Promises… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“Yet what moved Our Blessed Lord to invective was not badness but just such self-righteousness as this…He said that the harlots and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while… — Mark Haskell Smith Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“My unlucky star had destined me to be born when there was much talk about morality and, at the same time, more… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley 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
In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Talking the Talk is easy, the achievement is when one's Talk is reflected in their own Walk. Always practice what you preach… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
A thought came through my head...what if it was reversed? What if I loved someone else instead? What if I was leading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship… — George Eliot 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
It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
I don't see how someone can complain about something when they're just as much of a contributor, if not more so to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but… — Molière Copy Share Image
It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
What I have a problem with is these privileged people telling the British people how they should think. I find that rank… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
When you're young and you first see the extent and depth of the world's hypocrisy, it's fun to go after it. But… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
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