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• Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

  Susie Bright

  Erotic, Burning, Condemnation

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• Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

  Michela Wrong

  Games, Taught

  Michela Wrong (2000). “In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo”, Fourth Estate

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• Fifty three per cent children in India face sexual abuse - both boys and girls - but we still feel uncomfortable talking about it. We are still hypocrites when it comes to issues like child abuse, sex or for that matter homosexuality. It is high time that we brought the issue from under the carpet.

  Rahul Bose

  Girl, Sex, Children

  "Rahul Bose: We are all hypocrites". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. September 26, 2009.

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• Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Men, Color

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• When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, House, Religion

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.277, University of Chicago Press

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• Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

  Paul Watson

  Planets, Being A Hypocrite

  "‘Whale Wars’ Star Paul Watson Discusses Sea Shepherd, Libya, And Bluefin Tuna" by Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2011.

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• We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Fall, Ideals

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• Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,
  Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
  And marching single in an endless file,
  Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;
  To each they offer gifts after his will,
  Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;
  I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp
  Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
  Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
  Turned and departed silent. I too late
  Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Daughter, Morning, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Days”

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• I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Liars, Speak, Persons

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• " ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Feelings

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.75

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• He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

  William Blake

  Action, Minutes, Scoundrels

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

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• The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Atheism, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2195, Library of Alexandria

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• Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Goal, Purpose, Turns

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• I was called before the head matron, a tall woman with a stolid face. She began taking my pedigree. What religion? was the first question. None, I am an atheist. Atheism is prohibited here. You will have to go to church. I replied that I would do nothing of the kind. I did not believe in anything the Church stood for and, not being a hypocrite, I would not attend.

  Emma Goldman

  Atheist, Believe, Atheism

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."

  Ernest Cline

  Daughter, Thinking, Brain

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak
  of our own doubts, while dubiously
  we mother man in his doubt!

  Denise Levertov

  Mother, Men, Hypocrisy

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.135, New Directions Publishing

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• What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Errors, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wall, Hate, Men

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.67, 德威國際文化

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• Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace. This is a sure token that the devil is guarding the entry to the house, and that the PURE doctrine of God's Word has been taken away. The Church then, is in the BEST state when Satan assaileth it on every sideboth with subtle sleights, and outright violence. And likewise, it is in the WORST state when it is most at peace!

  Martin Luther

  Taken, House, Church

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• The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. Whereas the groanings of the righteous are but short, and their jubilee and triumph shall be everlasting.

  Ebenezer Erskine

  Joy, Wicked, Triumph

  Ebenezer Erskine (1798). “The whole works of the late Rev. Mr. Ebenezer Erskine, minister of the gospel at Stirling: consisting of sermons and discourses, on the most important and interesting subjects”, p.108

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• False praise can please, and calumny affright
  None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

  Horace

  Praise, Vicious, Calumny

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• In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. The chance's of theism's truth being to my mind so microscopically small, I would be a pedant and a hypocrite to call myself anything else.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Atheist, Mind, Would Be

  H. P. Lovecraft (1999). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories”, p.11, Penguin

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• A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

  Joseph Joubert

  Character, Men, Quality

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• Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry--the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Moving, Idols, Class

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• Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

  Hannah Arendt

  Hypocrisy, Ambitious, Doe

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

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