Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Hypocrite, Eagles

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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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• [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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• Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.

  John le Carre

  Enemy, Odd, Method

  "British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, “Our Kind of Traitor”". "Democracy Now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2010.

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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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• Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Looks, Sincerity

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• A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life is a farce and we're all in it for ourselves and that the point of life is to amass as much money/fame/sexual gratification, you know, whatever your personal thing is, and that everything else is just glitter or PR image - that we're tired of sort of doing that stuff over and over again.

  David Foster Wallace

  Tired, Dark, Farce

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• If you throw the baby away, that's garbage. But no, the heart's precious. You could get something, you could save a life. Well, you just threw away a baby but the heart's valuable. That's the horror and the terror and the hypocrisy that nobody can understand. We base communities on the idea of protecting children based on the sacrifice of adults. Adults work and die so that their next generation would grow and prosper.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Baby, Children, Heart

  "Hollywood weighs in on Iran nuclear deal". "The Five" with Greg Gutfeld, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Julie Roginsky, Eric Bolling and Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2015.

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• We are missing the truth. We live in a society that lies and fosters and sells dishonesty at a discount. Remember the line, 'America spells cheese K-R-A-F-T? That does not spell cheese! We tell our kids that as long as it looks good on the outside, don't worry about the inside. Or work hard and you'll be rewarded in the end. That's not necessarily true anymore. We don't tell the truth about certain things. Young people see our hypocrisy. We haven't given them a model to follow.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Lying, Kids, Hard Work

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• How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one were tobegin the day with long-suffering, and hire a man to hoe his potatoes; and in the afternoon go forth to practise Christian meekness and charity with goodness aforethought!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Christian, Men, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.516, Delphi Classics

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• Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Used

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• To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, People, Tails

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• There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Betrayal, Lying, Hypocrite

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• Take a look at the police and how they treat you,
  Take a look at these corporations that cheat you.
  Democrats and Republicans are all see-through.
  Now we votin for the lesser of two evils...
  Man, don't let 'em deceive you.
  This is an autocracy, not a democracy,
  But to call this a democracy without mock interest
  In the laws of society? That's called hypocrisy.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Men, Law

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• Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Dream, Teacher, Ignorance

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• Particularly marijuana, I think is a great hypocrisy. I think frankly it contributes to a good deal of the sense of unfairness you have among younger people who are told they shouldn't do this because it’s got all these negative effects, but then older people are engaging in all kinds of things that probably have a greater impact on people.

  Barney Frank

  Thinking, Marijuana, Impact

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• Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Modesty, Form, Delicate

  Remy de Gourmont (1920). “Philosophic Nights in Paris”

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• We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Fool, Irritated, Prepared

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.25, BookBaby

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• He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

  Gary McCord

  Sports, Golf, Winning

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• He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.

  Benjamin Harvey Hill

  Christian, Hate, Ambition

  Benjamin Harvey Hill (1891). “Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia: His Life, Speeches and Writings”

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• The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Vanity, Dupes

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• To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.

  J. C. Ryle

  Sorry, Giving, Sin

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.58, Editora Dracaena

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• Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Humility, Pride

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• Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Thinking, Would Be

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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