Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 26

• What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Names, People, Speech

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• In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

  Aberjhani

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.101, Lulu.com

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• Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.650, Harvard University Press

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• If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

  George Santayana

  Reality, World, Illusion

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

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• The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Quality, Ridiculous

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• We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.

  John Selden

  Together, Here And There, Should

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.20

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• Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Men, Virtuous

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

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• Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hypocrite, Achieve, Weak

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

  Ben Jonson

  Dear, Estimation

  Ben Jonson (1752). “Every Man in His Humour: A Comedy. Written by Ben Jonson. With Alterations and Additions. As it is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane”, p.18

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• How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

  Victor Hugo

  Frightened

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.13, Modern Library

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• In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, People, Democracy

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10”, p.40, Best Books on

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• He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.

  Michael Chabon

  Giving Up, Meat, Vegetarian

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• Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

  Rafael Sabatini

  Book, Men, Realizing

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• Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .

  Albert Pike

  Justice, Vices, Pay

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.

  Al Smith

  Men, Cheerful, Miserable

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• We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the world if those weapons are one day to be eliminated. We will not contemplate any circumstance in which their possession or threatened use is justified. We reject the secrecy and hypocrisy which surrounds the continuing refinement of the technology.

  David Lange

  Technology, Numbers, One Day

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Silence, Committed

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.109, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Man knows so much and does so little.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Sad, Men, Doe

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• The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sorrow, Coins, Rhyme

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers”

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• The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.

  Heinrich Heine

  Support, Might, Facts

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• The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or any worldly motive, profess or pretend to believe what they do not believe, nor can give any reason for believing, they unship the helm of their morality, and being no longer honest to their own minds they feel no moral difficulty in being unjust to others.

  Thomas Paine

  Fashion, Believe, Men

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.88

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• The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Mother, Independence

  "An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport". Book by John Quincy Adams (p.50), 1837.

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• A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Warrior, Action

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

  Laozi

  Clever, Knowledge, Self Awareness

  Laozi (1982). “Tao te ching”, Coronet Books

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