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• I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Tolerance, Politics

  "Christopher Hitchens: 'You have to choose your future regrets'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.

  Jose Emilio Pacheco

  Judging, Way, Hypocrit

  Jose Emilio Pacheco (1987). “Battles in the Desert & Other Stories”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

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• The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

  Socrates

  Life, Wisdom, Being Yourself

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• God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Religious, Truth, Practice

  Ronald J. Sider (2005). “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Men, Hypocrisy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.144, Library of America

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• Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

  Lord Byron

  Hypocrisy, Smooth, Thee

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1326, Delphi Classics

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• Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hypocrisy, Halos, Prejudice

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• A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Fake People, Cutting, Hypocrisy

  "Mark Souder: The Hypocrisy of the Hypocrite" by Diana Butler Bass, www.beliefnet.com. May 18, 2010.

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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, Evil, Hypocrisy

  'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2

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• Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Jobs, Fear, Men

  Cakes and Ale (1930) ch. 1

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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

  Evil, Hypocrisy, Criminals

  'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2

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• You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.

  Joseph Heller

  Hate, People, Effort

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.395, Simon and Schuster

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• A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

  William Hazlitt

  Respect, Hype, Hypocrisy

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.142

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• The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

  William Hazlitt

  Forgiveness, Hypocrisy, Vices

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.94

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• Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is very easy - all that you need is to be a hypocrite, which is not much of a problem. Deep down you remain the same, but on the surface you go on painting yourself according to some image.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Needs, Goes On

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kings, Hypocrisy, Age

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

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• There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Betrayal, Lying, Hypocrisy

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• The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

  Minna Antrim

  Women, Lying, Differences

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• Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hypocrisy, Democracy, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

  William Hazlitt

  Sleep, Can't Sleep, Hypocrisy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1808, Delphi Classics

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• He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Passion, Honest, Should

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• He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

  William Blake

  Art, Politics, Economy

  Jerusalem ch. 3, plate 55, l. 60 (1815)

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• It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Believe, Errors, Would Be

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1399, BookCaps Study Guides

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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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• The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Ideas, Hypocrisy

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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