Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love. — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Some apologies are like the giving of a bomb that is about to explode as a peace offering.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If I had tried to adopt the tone and vibe of other serious journalists, that would have come across as insincere, forced,… — Stacey Dooley Copy Share Image
The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out;… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
I don't like to think of myself as an insincere person but if I say I love you and I don't mean… — Jeanette Copy Share Image
All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if you… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
Not that we were being insincere. Or maybe I should say we were being sincere in our insincerity. — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I will not let you (or me) make me dishonest, insincere, emotionally tied-up or constricted, or artificially nice and social, if I… — Eugene Gendlin Copy Share Image
I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
“If you remain ‘insincere’ to one person, then that person will hold you back from going to moksha!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I daily examine myself on three points: In planning for others, have I failed in conscientiousness? In intercourse with friends, have I… — Confucius Copy Share Image
It is said that insincere apologies can be detected while heart-felt apologies melt away all grievances, anger and hatred. Felt with all… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero Copy Share Image
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting;… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
“We're all guilty of saying insincere things at one point or another, if only just to make the moment not totally suck… — Jen Naumann Copy Share Image
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I would never want to disrespect my beliefs. There are certain, obviously different, areas you wouldn't go. It's not congruent to who… — Riaad Moosa Copy Share Image
A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean,… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
