Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 24

• At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.

  C. Everett Koop

  Government, United States, Height

  "How Alexander Cockburn Helped Me Take on the War on Drugs" by Brian McKenna, www.counterpunch.org. August 12, 2013.

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• It's always easier to spot others' hypocrisies while missing our own.

  Annette Gordon-Reed

  Missing, Easier, Spots

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• My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

  Ishmael Reed

  Writing, Mirrors, Hawthorne

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  People, Liberty, Adults

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• I don't like hypocrisy-even in international relations.

  Kofi Abrefa Busia

  Relation, International Relations, International

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• Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

  Penn Jillette

  Evil, Doe, Half

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• I think it's such utter hypocrisy that so many people in our society were obviously all watching pornography and yet we treat these people [actors] like they're sub-human. I think it's just disgusting.

  Steve Grand

  Thinking, People, Actors

  Interview with Jim Halterman, www.newnownext.com. March 23, 2015.

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• False friends leave you in times of trouble.

  Aesop

  Trouble, False Friends, Times Of Trouble

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Doe, Gone

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• The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.

  Amy Ray

  Kids, Community, Honest

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• Conservatives came to office to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private initiative. But lately we have increased government in order to stay in office. And, soon, if we don't remember why we were elected we will have lost our office along with our principles, and leave a mountain of debt that our children's grandchildren will suffer from long after we have departed this earth. Because, my friends, hypocrisy is the most obvious of sins, and the people will punish it.

  John McCain

  Children, Government, Order

  "McCain's two swipes at Bush" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2006.

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• There are just certain things you can't talk about with kids. I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk. Kids are kids; they're innocents, they really are. For a long time, no matter what they see, no matter what they're exposed to, they can't get it until they have developed enough.

  David Small

  Believe, Character, Kids

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy.

  Jay Michaelson

  Stronger, Fans, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• [People who have left the ISIS] say that there comes a moment when the inconsistencies and apparent hypocrisies of their sheikh lets them down, and they begin rereading scripture and find ways that vouch for a nonliteralist reading of the Koran.

  Rukmini Maria Callimachi

  Reading, Isis, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It's the lack of humanity in the human psyche that haunts me. The hypocrisy. How people as a group can take something like tolerance and contort it into a new form of intolerance and conformity. The way humanity can justify any kind of evil.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Evil, Tolerance

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• I think it was there before, but - because of social media, too - there are these people who fancy themselves as tolerant, and don't see the hypocrisy and double standard of how they're not tolerant at all, and they're just strident and they don't listen. There's no dialogue anymore. That's maybe, truly, the worst part of Trump's legacy is just people yelling at each other.

  David Cross

  Thinking, Yelling, Media

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• What I don't understand is how a policy against outing trumps a policy of reporting. Whenever you're reporting on hypocrisy, you're kind of 'outing' something to begin with.

  Kirby Dick

  Kind, Trump, Policy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When my stories were translated into other languages and received good reviews in the international press and won prizes, some Arab festivals and newspapers began to take an interest in what I had produced. This sudden Arab interest is a form of hypocrisy and nonsense.

  Hassan Blasim

  Stories, Festivals, Language

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.

  Rajneesh

  Function

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• No man's condition is so base as his;
  None more accurs'd than he; for man esteems
  Him hateful, 'cause he seems not what he is;
  God hates him, 'cause he is not what he seems;
  What grief is absent, or what mischief can
  Be added to the hate of God and man?

  Francis Quarles

  Hate, Grief, Men

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• If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, People, Vices

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

  Frederick Douglass

  Fruit, Christianity, Easy

  Frederick Douglass, Michael Meyer (1983). “Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings”, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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• If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

  Michael Kinsley

  Vices, Pay, Virtue

  Michael Kinsley (2008). “Please Don't Remain Calm: Provocations and Commentaries”, p.194, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

  A. J. Liebling

  Old Friends, Capacity, Discovering

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.39, Macmillan

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• For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

  Robin Williams

  Sides, Comedy, Kind

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