Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 25

• It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, hypocrisy, and callous indifference to those in need.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sex, Lying, Rocks

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.270, Crown

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• The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Men, Iron

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• If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

  Neal Stephenson

  Republic, Virtue, Coastal

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.144, Spectra

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• Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Vanity, Order

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Joseph Andrews and Shamela”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.
  Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Evil, Virtue

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Twelfth Night”, p.68, Penguin

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• Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Fear, Soul, Daggers

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.250, Library of Alexandria

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• All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...

  Peter Ustinov

  Boys, Men, Order

  "Romanoff and Juliet". Play by Peter Ustinov, 1956.

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• Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don't, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease.

  Suzy Kassem

  Running, Ignorance, Hypocrite

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Spiritual, Pain, Lying

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• Everyone went out and bought Sex, it was sold out in two seconds. And then everybody slagged me off. That, to me is a statement of the hypocrisy of the world that we live in. The fact that everybody is so interested in sex but won't admit it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Two, World

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• Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Play, Mediocrity, Safe

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• A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

  Marie Corelli

  Criminals, Add, Crime

  Marie Corelli (1972). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”, p.69, Health Research Books

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• What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

  Margaret Deland

  Mother, Thinking, Want

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• I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.

  Margi Clarke

  Karma, Food, Thinking

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• Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Simple, Men, Thinking

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.49, 德威國際文化

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• It is the height of hypocrisy for [Hillary] Clinton to talk about being the first woman president when every single policy she espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women.

  Carly Fiorina

  President, Height, Firsts

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Hope, Respect

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1966). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Two essays on analytical psychology”

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• I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

  Helen Keller

  Stupid, Mean, Bores You

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

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• I really embrace my hypocrisy. I embrace that because after I do that, I can move on; I can try and go away from that. You gotta understand what your problem is and know what it is, and then you can change it. You can't just be like, "I'm a hypocrite, and to not be a hypocrite, I'm just going to not do hypocritical things." You can't do that; you don't even understand what a hypocrite is.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Moving, Hypocrite, Going Away

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am bad at cultural generalizations but I would venture to say that by a wide margin there is less hypocrisy about sex in France than in America.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Sex, America, Venture

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that only the few will be saved and the many damned, have been shed, replaced by strummed guitars and saccharine smiles. It has reinvented itself so often, and with such breathtaking hypocrisy, in the interests of retaining its hold on the gullible, that a medieval monk who woke today, like Woody Allen's Sleeper, would not be able to recognise the faith that bears the same name as his own.

  A.C. Grayling

  Guitar, Names, Focus

  "Can an atheist be a fundamentalist?" by A. C. Grayling, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2006.

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• I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

  Ovid

  Hate, Thinking, Making Love

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.328, Delphi Classics

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• On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

  Emanuel Lasker

  Truth, Lying, Long

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• They are constantly trying to drive us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we maintain it and because we tell it like it is and don't engage in hypocrisy. But there is a limit to everything. And with Ukraine, our Western partners have crossed the line, playing the bear and acting irresponsibly and unprofessionally.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Independent, Ukraine

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• It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.

  Max Beerbohm

  Grief, Light, Grumbling

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.71, 1st World Publishing

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