Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 9

• Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy...He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Lying, Real

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• Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Believe, Son

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.381, Modern Library

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• If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Lying, Heart, And Love

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.29, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.

  Henry Miller

  Brother, Liars, Integrity

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• Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

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• No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.

  Thomas Piketty

  Financial, Economic, Interest

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.514, Harvard University Press

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• I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

  Alexander Theroux

  Hate, Injustice, Reason

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

  Hannah Arendt

  Hypocrite, Ambitious, Doe

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

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• There must be a very clear understanding that you cannot work for peace if you are not ready to struggle. And this is the very meaning of jihad: to manage your intention to get your inner peace when it comes to the spiritual journey. In our society, that means face injustice and hypocrisy, face the dictators, the exploiters, the oppressors if you want to free the oppressed, if you want peace based on justice.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Struggle, Mean

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away; your individuality, your individual arises. To have a personality is hypocrisy. To be an individual is your birthright.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Personality, Individuality

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• It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we didn't know we had.

  Robert E. Quinn

  Integrity, Self, Focus

  Robert E. Quinn (2004). “Building the Bridge As You Walk On It: A Guide for Leading Change”, Jossey-Bass

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• [Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for women.

  Hugh Nibley

  Clever, Satan

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• I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, World, Worship

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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• Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Prayer has never made you right, because right now our world of Islam is filled with abject hypocrisy in its religiosity.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Prayer, Our World, Islam

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The intention makes the crime.

  Aristotle

  Integrity, Identity, Crime

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• Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Accountability, Political, Democracy

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• Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

  John Adams

  Names, Suffering, President

  "A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law" by John Adams, teachingamericanhistory.org. 1765.

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• Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. He's got to. I don't see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Eye, Thinking, Years

  "Fictional character: Linus Van Pelt". "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• There is no heaven and there is no hell. They are not geographical, they are part of your psychology. They are psychological. To live the life of spontaneity, truth, love, beauty is to live in heaven. To live the life of hypocrisy, lies, compromises,to live according to others, is to live in hell. To live in freedom is heaven, and to live in subjection is hell.

  Rajneesh

  Lying, Live Life, Love Is

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• Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

  Arthur Freed

  Integrity, Character, Trying

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• One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

  Anais Nin

  Truth, Deception, Giants

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 5 (1947-1955)". Book by Anais Nin, 1975.

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• Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.

  Mary Ruefle

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.263, Wave Books

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• Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

  Don King

  Mother, Children, Evil

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• Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Lying, Objectivity, Doe

  "The Rage of Oriana Fallaci". Interview with George Gurley, observer.com. January 27, 2003.

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