Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 22

• Look into the world--how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind an appearance of piety, and putting on the garb of religion, which none but the merciful and compassionate have a title to wear.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heart, Men, Selfishness

  Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.234, Hackett Publishing

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• Washington always has a high level of hypocrisy, right, but I think the level of hypocrisy that has come out of the United States Senate on both sides of the aisle is amazing.

  Matthew Dowd

  Thinking, United States, Levels

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Imagine going to the holy land in Israel, whether you're a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim, and start carving up the mountain of Zion. It's an insult to our entire being. It's bad enough getting four white faces carved in up there [on Mount Rushmore], the shrine of hypocrisy.

  Russell Means

  Christian, Land, White

  Source: progressive.org

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• The Christianity that had come in my life as a child was all this idea that you're never going to see God. It's like hypocrisy, in a way.

  George Harrison

  Children, Ideas, Way

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• Obama said, basically, "I wouldn't let any son of mine play football, though I do watch." And that struck me as remarkable! It's like he's saying, yeah, let some other set of parents or guardians put their boys up for that kind of punishment (and for my amusement). But not mine! It's just abject hypocrisy from a guy who should know better.

  Steve Almond

  Football, Son, Boys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Drinking, Men

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• Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

  Mark Twain

  Papa, Doe, Deeds

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.433, GENERAL PRESS

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• With respect to teaching, I couldn't make sense of mainstream economics when I had to teach it to college students. At the same time, I could see at the school that there was a whole lot of hypocrisy. Not much real respect for the "higher learning."

  Michael Yates

  Real, Teaching, School

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.

  Christina Stead

  Cities, White, Racism

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.133, Head of Zeus

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• I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

  Christina Stead

  Men, Rights, Wish

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.279, Head of Zeus

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• All live by seeming.
  The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier
  Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming;
  The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier
  Will eke with it his service.--All admit it,
  All practise it; and he who is content
  With showing what he is, shall have small credit
  In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.

  Walter Scott

  Gay, Land, Soldier

  sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) (1862). “The Waverley novels. 25 vols.”, p.260

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• In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put it mildly. Either there's democracy, or there isn't.

  Garry Kasparov

  Democracy, Connections, Different

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Loyalty, Truth, Ambition

  "Fables at Life's Expense". Book by Marvin Cohen, 1975.

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• We all cry out that the world is corrupt,--and I fear too justly,--but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that itis our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.

  Laurence Sterne

  Encouragement, Giving, Evil

  Laurence Sterne (1873). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author”, p.130, London : Bickers, H. Sotheran

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• A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Stars, Children, Two

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• This is the day when people reciprocally offer, and receive, the kindest and the warmest wishes, though, in general, without meaning them on one side, or believing them on the other. They are formed by the head, in compliance with custom, though disavowed by the heart, in consequence of nature.

  Lord Chesterfield

  New Year, Believe, Heart

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.497

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• 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. Give me the goodness which has forgotten its own deeds,--which God has seen to be good, and let be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Winter, Giving, Sentimental

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel.

  Lord Chesterfield

  New Year, Lying, Years

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• I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Children, Intelligent, Years

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

  John Calvin

  Empty, Enough, Righteousness

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.44, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I decided to write Leadership BS because I was irritated by the hypocrisy in the leadership literature and the fact that many of the people writing leadership books exhibited behavior that was precisely the opposite of what they advocated and also what they claimed they did. Stories did not seem to be a good foundation on which to build a science of leadership.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Book, Writing, Opposites

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The world is looking, not for Christians who are perfect, but for Christians who are honest and who are willing to be honest with some of our contradictions and hypocrisy.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Perfect, World

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere

  Jeremy Griffith

  Truth Is, Humans

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• Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

  Michel Foucault

  Facts, Modern, Spite

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.47, Vintage

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• When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises

  Jeremy Griffith

  Failing, Raises, Recognise

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