Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 24

• When my stories were translated into other languages and received good reviews in the international press and won prizes, some Arab festivals and newspapers began to take an interest in what I had produced. This sudden Arab interest is a form of hypocrisy and nonsense.

  Hassan Blasim

  Stories, Festivals, Language

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What I don't understand is how a policy against outing trumps a policy of reporting. Whenever you're reporting on hypocrisy, you're kind of 'outing' something to begin with.

  Kirby Dick

  Kind, Trump, Policy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it was there before, but - because of social media, too - there are these people who fancy themselves as tolerant, and don't see the hypocrisy and double standard of how they're not tolerant at all, and they're just strident and they don't listen. There's no dialogue anymore. That's maybe, truly, the worst part of Trump's legacy is just people yelling at each other.

  David Cross

  Thinking, Yelling, Media

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• It's the lack of humanity in the human psyche that haunts me. The hypocrisy. How people as a group can take something like tolerance and contort it into a new form of intolerance and conformity. The way humanity can justify any kind of evil.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Evil, Tolerance

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• [People who have left the ISIS] say that there comes a moment when the inconsistencies and apparent hypocrisies of their sheikh lets them down, and they begin rereading scripture and find ways that vouch for a nonliteralist reading of the Koran.

  Rukmini Maria Callimachi

  Reading, Isis, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

  Penn Jillette

  Evil, Doe, Half

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• While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy.

  Jay Michaelson

  Stronger, Fans, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Men, Iron

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• It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, hypocrisy, and callous indifference to those in need.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sex, Lying, Rocks

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.270, Crown

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• If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

  Michael Kinsley

  Vices, Pay, Virtue

  Michael Kinsley (2008). “Please Don't Remain Calm: Provocations and Commentaries”, p.194, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

  Voltaire

  Doe, Various

  Voltaire, John G. Gorton (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.38

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• It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Quality, May

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.421

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• What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

  Margaret Deland

  Mother, Thinking, Want

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• Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Fear, Soul, Daggers

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.250, Library of Alexandria

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• I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

  Frederick Douglass

  Fruit, Christianity, Easy

  Frederick Douglass, Michael Meyer (1983). “Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings”, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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• For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

  Robin Williams

  Sides, Comedy, Kind

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• Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.
  Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Evil, Virtue

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Twelfth Night”, p.68, Penguin

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• All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...

  Peter Ustinov

  Boys, Men, Order

  "Romanoff and Juliet". Play by Peter Ustinov, 1956.

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• My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

  A. J. Liebling

  Old Friends, Capacity, Discovering

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.39, Macmillan

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• How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Spiritual, Pain, Lying

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• Everyone went out and bought Sex, it was sold out in two seconds. And then everybody slagged me off. That, to me is a statement of the hypocrisy of the world that we live in. The fact that everybody is so interested in sex but won't admit it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Two, World

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• Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Play, Mediocrity, Safe

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• The Bishop has a skin, God knows,
  Wrinkled like the foot of a goose,
  (All find safety in the tomb.)
  Nor can he hide in holy black
  The heron's hunch upon his back,
  But a birch-tree stood my Jack.

  William Butler Yeats

  Feet, Safety, Tree

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

  KRS-One

  Race, Hip Hop, Acting

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partiy with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy.

  Emma Goldman

  Honesty, Self, Justice

  Essay in the Mother Earth Journal, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. February 1916.

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