Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 16

• Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.

  Boris Pasternak

  Order, Pharisees, Way

  Doctor Zhivago "Zhivago's Poems: Hamlet" (1958) (translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)

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• Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

  James Laver

  Age, Revealing

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• Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Integrity, Self, Accomplishment

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.8, Penguin

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• We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Women, School

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Andrew L. Zehner "How They Work In Indiana: Business-Education Partnerships" (p. 3), 1994.

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• That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

  Alexander Pope

  Character, Civility, Made

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.128

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• Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

  Richard Wright

  Integrity, Men, Self

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.366, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• His (Deschamps') complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Lying, Government, Common Sense

  Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.539, Penguin UK

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• I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.

  Craig Ferguson

  Parent, Care, Let Me

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• It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Integrity, War

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Integrity, People, Identity

  'The Analysis of the Hunting Field' (1846) ch. 1

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• A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Revenge, Mistake, Men

  Mary Baker Eddy (1990). “Ciencia y salud: con clave de las escrituras”, Writings of Mary Baker Eddy

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• Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

  Criss Jami

  Neutrality, Easier

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.77, Criss Jami

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• Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the original of what they counterfeit, and which may indeed be said to have fallen from heaven, they produce so seldom, that it is cankered by the rust of sloth, and useless from non-application.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hypocrite, Heaven, Sloth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.32

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• Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

  Thomas Paine

  God, Peace, Truth

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.196, Rowman & Littlefield

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• As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  America, Outsiders, Kind

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• English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.

  Paul Scott

  Mean, Light, Years

  Paul Scott (2011). “The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown”, p.206, University of Chicago Press

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• He who knows himself is enlightened.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Taoism, Enlightened

  Laozi (2002). “Tao Te Ching: The Way of Virtue”, p.45, Square One Publishers, Inc.

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• Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

  William Blake

  Hypocrite, Attention, Care

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• The 'Rise, Rebel, Resist' video is a reflection of the outrage the American people are feeling at the absurd hypocrisy, and overwhelming nonsense and balderdash plaguing Washington D.C. It uses a bit of satire and a bit of wishful thinking to form this powerful amalgam of imagery that nourishes and empowers the living art of the song. Our message is clear: Either these elected officials do their job and protect the rights and lives of ALL Americans or be prepared to face the consequences.

  Otep Shamaya

  Song, Art, Jobs

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• Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Preacher, Sermons, One Thing

  "The Essays of Michel de Montaigne".

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• Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.

  Akbar

  Destiny, India, Advancement

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• Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Independence, Today

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• Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do.

  Wes Fesler

  Children, Memories, Parent

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• Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered.

  Thomas Paine

  Hurt, Men, Light

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.12

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• To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Pigs, Giving

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