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• It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

  Alfred Adler

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

  In Phyllis Bottome Alfred Adler (1939) p. 76

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• There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

  Richard Pryor

  Racism, Gone

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• Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

  Moliere

  Fashion, Hypocrite, Vices

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.248, Penguin

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• People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.

  Democritus

  Children, People, Greed

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• As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  Hannah Arendt

  Integrity, Hypocrite, Evil

  'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2

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• For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Dying, Dies

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 3, st. 37 (1898)

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• We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Trust, Betrayal, Integrity

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Memorable, Learning

  Jean Kerr (1973). “Finishing Touches”, p.9, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

  Christine Keeler

  Polite, Discretion

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• Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  Hannah Arendt

  Hypocrite, Evil, Criminals

  'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2

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• Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

  Moliere

  Hypocrite, Giving, Rooms

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• Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

  Jose Marti

  Fake People, Men, Thinking

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

  Lord Byron

  Pay, England, Virtue

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• I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wicked, Would Be, Importance Of Being Earnest

  'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 2

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• Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

  Alexander Theroux

  Essence, Problem, Snobbery

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• Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hypocrite, Sin

  'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 92

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• Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Ignorant, Knows

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• Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Wisdom, Children, Hypocrite

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna karenina (Arcadia Classics)”, p.334, Leo Tolstoy

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• Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

  Stendhal

  Math, Vagueness, Mathematics

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• No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy.

  Edward George, Baron George

  Tasks, Systematic, Difficult

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• In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kings, Hypocrite, Age

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

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• When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

  John Dewey

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, David Sidorsky (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928”, p.120, SIU Press

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• You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.

  Shams Tabrizi

  People, Stay Happy

  "Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi". Book by Shams Tabrizi, translated by William C. Chittick, 2004.

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• Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

  Aldous Huxley

  Peace, Long, Feelings

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Sinner

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 3, sc. 3, l. 31

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