Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 13

• In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Honesty, Freedom, Democracy

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• How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?

  Michael Josephson

  Trust, Betrayal, Integrity

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• In the middle of a conversation, she'll frequently say something like, "Young people are heartless, they don't have any respect anymore." I nod agreement in hopes that she'll stop right there, but secretly I'm convinced that the heart is the same as it's always been; there's simply less hypocrisy, that's all. Young people aren't naturally selfish, any more than old folks are naturally wise. Your age doesn't have anything to do with whether you're sensitive or shallow; it's a question of the path your life takes.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Wise, Selfish, Heart

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• Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

  Laurence Sterne

  Hypocrite, Criticism, Literature

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 3, ch. 12

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• Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Integrity, Ambition

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.153

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• To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

  Marquis de Sade

  Atheist, Men, Views

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• When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.

  Elvis Presley

  Integrity, Character, Snakes

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• The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Heart, Character

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Quotable Jefferson”

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• Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

  Pearl S. Buck

  Courage, Integrity, Adversity

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• If your reason for worshipping God is merely from a sense of moral duty, God would rather you not worship Him at all. To say that God is pleased with worship that lacks passion is to say God endorses hypocrisy.

  Sam Storms

  Passion, Moral, Worship

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• I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap politician making a pretty speech? This is not what I intend to do... I believe in life, that it is sweet and that, for all its occasional bitterness, we-man, that is-are headed toward something better - fulfillment. There is much shame, however, and so much hypocrisy around us and these inhibit our fulfillment as human beings.

  F. Sionil José

  Mother, Sweet, Believe

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• The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink

  George Orwell

  War, Lying, Exercise

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.467, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.

  Anna Quindlen

  Art, Sex, Home

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• The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Expression, Long

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• And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why — Why do we do this? Why don’t we do that? — and often there isn’t a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn’t true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush. The shame of parenthood — which is a good shame — is that we want our children to be more whole than we are, to have satisfactory answers.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Parent, Inspire

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

  Georges Bernanos

  Failing, Mask, Pleasure

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• The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.

  Theodore Parker

  Christian, Mother, Vices

  "Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker: Minister of the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society, Boston, Vol. 1". Book by John Weiss, p. 374, 1864.

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• Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

  Richard Bach

  Tree, World, Duty

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• In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Cheating, Religious, Racism

  "Viggo Mortensen blasts President Bush" by Jeannette Walls, www.today.com. December 14, 2005.

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• The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.

  Prince Augustus William of Prussia

  Men, May, Pilots

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• I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were askedthis week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company's behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Art, New York, Self

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• Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Bully, Soul

  Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.293, Wordsworth Editions

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• We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Vanity, Shining

  Blaise Pascal (1910). “Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”

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• I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".

  Albert Camus

  House, Labels, Cards

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