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
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
One of the biggest flaws of people are pretending to be blind to their own mistakes, but do not pretend deaf towards… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying,… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“I see you exhausted by poisonous flies; I see you bleeding and torn at a hundred spots; and your pride refuses even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
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
“BLACK AND WHITE I was born into A religion of Light, But with so many other Religions and Philosophies, How do I… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld's famous aphorism that 'Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue,' and so tend… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of - pick a number - 40 you're on. Under 40, and… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Who are you? To judge me? I mean come on nobody's perfect even if its you. Just get up and see for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You have been led astray, my child, by the conflicting and vain opinions of mankind. You, like many others in the world,… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“These religious types were the fans that Jesus seems to have the most trouble with. Fans who will walk into a restaurant… — Kyle Idleman Copy Share Image
“Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe and what, in fact, they do… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those… — Jack Kelly Copy Share Image
If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed. And justice comes… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle.… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
I used to question this for years - what did our kids actually fight for? They would go in the service and… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“Hypocrisy is a quality found in others. I am an optimist. I believe that saying the right thing will eventually cause people… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I am bad at cultural generalizations but I would venture to say that by a wide margin there is less hypocrisy about… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these… — Molière Copy Share Image
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