Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 25

• At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.

  C. Everett Koop

  Government, United States, Height

  "How Alexander Cockburn Helped Me Take on the War on Drugs" by Brian McKenna, www.counterpunch.org. August 12, 2013.

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• Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Doe, Gone

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• The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.

  Amy Ray

  Kids, Community, Honest

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• Conservatives came to office to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private initiative. But lately we have increased government in order to stay in office. And, soon, if we don't remember why we were elected we will have lost our office along with our principles, and leave a mountain of debt that our children's grandchildren will suffer from long after we have departed this earth. Because, my friends, hypocrisy is the most obvious of sins, and the people will punish it.

  John McCain

  Children, Government, Order

  "McCain's two swipes at Bush" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2006.

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• My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.

  Rajneesh

  Function

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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Kindness, People, Acting

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• If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Men, Behinds

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Children, Parenting

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.”, p.90, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

  Laozi

  Clever, Knowledge, Self Awareness

  Laozi (1982). “Tao te ching”, Coronet Books

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• A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Warrior, Action

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Mother, Independence

  "An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport". Book by John Quincy Adams (p.50), 1837.

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• The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or any worldly motive, profess or pretend to believe what they do not believe, nor can give any reason for believing, they unship the helm of their morality, and being no longer honest to their own minds they feel no moral difficulty in being unjust to others.

  Thomas Paine

  Fashion, Believe, Men

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.88

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• If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.

  Al Smith

  Men, Cheerful, Miserable

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• The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sorrow, Coins, Rhyme

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers”

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• Man knows so much and does so little.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Sad, Men, Doe

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• We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the world if those weapons are one day to be eliminated. We will not contemplate any circumstance in which their possession or threatened use is justified. We reject the secrecy and hypocrisy which surrounds the continuing refinement of the technology.

  David Lange

  Technology, Numbers, One Day

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

  Karl Marx

  Tired, Fighting, Hair

  Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

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• The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.

  Heinrich Heine

  Support, Might, Facts

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• Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .

  Albert Pike

  Justice, Vices, Pay

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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