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• Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  Hannah Arendt

  Hypocrite, Rotten, Radical

  'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2

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• Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

  Bill Pullman

  Idyllic, Towns, Easy

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• If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

  Eleanor Clift

  Privacy, Ends, Kitties

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• You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

  Arundhati Roy

  Shy, Politics, Realizing

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 19, 2004.

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• The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Fire, World

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

  William Hazlitt

  Hypocrite, Sleep, Can't Sleep

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1808, Delphi Classics

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• We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

  Thomas Fuller

  Hypocrite, Sincerity, Enough

  "Heretics". Book by G. K. Chesterton, chapter V: "Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants", 1905.

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• No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Passion, Heart, Hypocrite

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. "An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 319, 1732.

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• When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, Men, Differences

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Chapter XI, 1688.

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• We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  God, Successful, May

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• I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Attitude, Power

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• [Y]ou never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you don't get caught, because if you are caught no one or no one who has any sense will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself.

  Janet Malcolm

  Done, Benefits, Shut Up

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• Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

  Samuel Johnson

  Villain, Burden, Folly

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.145

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• There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and tlak much of free grace, but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Hypocrite, Men, Discovery

  Jonathan Edwards (1844). “The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index”, p.52

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• An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

  Michael Korda

  Ambition, Pounds

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• Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

  John Muir

  Wind, Two, Space

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Freedom, Integrity, Adversity

  The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness foreword (1944)

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• Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Passion, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1727, Delphi Classics

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• Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

  H. G. Wells

  Jealousy, Witty, Humorous

  The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914) ch. 9, sect. 2

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• Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

  Rebecca West

  Powerful, Hypocrite, Agents

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.175, Open Road Media

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• Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

  William Laud

  Hypocrite, Men, Church

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by J.K. Hoyt & K.L. Roberts, p. 383-84, 1922.

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• Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Fake, Morality

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.38, BookBaby

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• The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

  James Russell Lowell

  Devil, Intolerance, Reformers

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.83

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• Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vices, Virtue, Homage

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• Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

  Josh Billings

  Fool, Bears, Willing

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