Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• We don't live in a democracy; we live in a hypocrisy.

  Sarah Silverman

  Democracy

  "What I've Learned: Sarah Silverman & Jimmy Kimmel" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Justice, Envy, Leader

  c.1874 Letter.

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• If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.

  Louis Bourdaloue

  Humble, Humility, Pride

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• I do not believe in hypocrisy.

  Vijay Mallya

  Believe

  "Unfortunate that I am being held responsible for Kingfisher Airlines' difficulties: Vijay Mallya". ET Now Interview, economictimes.indiatimes.com. January 10, 2013.

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• The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Funny, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.

  Leland Ryken

  Religious, Thinking, Doe

  Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.20, Harper Collins

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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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• To wear long faces, just as if our Maker,
  The God of goodness, was an undertaker.

  John Wolcot

  Long, Faces, Goodness

  John Wolcot (1797). “The works of Peter Pindar”, p.116

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• [University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.

  Muriel Beadle

  Heart, University Students, Self

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• Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

  Margaret of Valois

  May, Austerity, Found

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• It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Profound, Trying, Reconcile

  "The Disingenuous Professor Ruse". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. July 29, 2012.

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• But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.94

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• Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Dying, Characteristics, Epoch

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