Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 21

• So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Choices, Important, Good People

  "Ender in Exile". Book by Orson Scott Card, November 11, 2008.

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• Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not. It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy. Cease, too, to call other nations savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty than they.

  Joseph Brant

  Christian, Children, Practice

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• Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

  Ernest Gaines

  Motivational, Respect, Integrity

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• I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, People, Political

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• What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

  Barbara Jordan

  Peace, Integrity, War

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• Only the shallow know themselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Smile, Laughter

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

  Carl Jung

  Truth, Mistake, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1968). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Loyalty, Respect, Honesty

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (7), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

  Enid Bagnold

  Men, Doctors, Years

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• He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Politics, Flattery

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.

  Roger Williams

  Jesus, War, Civilization

  Roger Williams, John Cotton, John Murton (1848). “The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed: And Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered”, p.2

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• There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

  Lewis Carroll

  Birthday, Four, Might

  Adrian Mitchell, Lewis Carroll (2001). “Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass”, Oberon Books Limited

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• Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

  Mason Cooley

  Cynicism

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• My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

  Bill Cosby

  Getting Older, Age, Comedy

  "Bill Cosby: 49". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

  Jane Austen

  Strength, Hate, Women

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• Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Moral High Ground, Acting, Way

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• A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Success, Writing

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• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Honesty, Integrity

  'Rasselas' (1759) ch. 41

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• A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Children, Hard Life, Three

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• Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry.

  George Carlin

  Rap, Unique, Genius

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Hens, Meat, Teeth

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• I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

  Franz Grillparzer

  God, Becoming, Intimate

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• Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
  So I make an idle boast;
  Jesus of the twice-turned cheek
  Lamb of God, although I speak
  With my mouth thus, in my heart
  Do I play a double part.

  Countee Cullen

  Jesus, Father, Heart

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.66, Library of America

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• The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be praiseworthy, and would be a form of hypocrisy, which is one of the evils of Pride. The man who is falsely humble, we know from our own experience, is one who is falsely proud.

  Henry Fairlie

  Humble, Humility, Pride

  Henry Fairlie (2015). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”, p.47, University of Notre Dame Pess

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