Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 26

• I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

  Ovid

  Hate, Thinking, Making Love

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.328, Delphi Classics

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• The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Quality, Ridiculous

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• If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

  George Santayana

  Reality, World, Illusion

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

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• A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.650, Harvard University Press

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• Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Self, Deception

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• Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

  Richard L. Evans

  Courage, Sorry, Winning

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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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• What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Names, People, Speech

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• If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Hope, Respect

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1966). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Two essays on analytical psychology”

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• Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Simple, Men, Thinking

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.49, 德威國際文化

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• I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.

  Margi Clarke

  Karma, Food, Thinking

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• I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

  Helen Keller

  Stupid, Mean, Bores You

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

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• Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Silence, Committed

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.109, Taylor Trade Publications

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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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