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Hypocrisy Quotes
AbsurdityAngerComedyHypocrisyOutrage 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.
FearHypocrisyInjusticeSelf Preservation Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
HypocrisyPietyReligious Persecution Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
BetrayalDeceptionHypocrisyInconsistencyOrganized Structure A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
HypocrisyMoralityNational IdentityPatriotismVirtue One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
DeceptionEvilHuman NatureHypocrisyJustice Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Climate ResponsibilityDouble StandardsHypocrisyInaction Many people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.
HypocrisyJusticePolitical PowerWar Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
DeceptionFalse PromisesGrandiosityHypocrisyInaction Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
ConsequenceHypocrisyInjusticeReputationSelf Reflection The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
DictatorshipHypocrisyMedia Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
HypocrisyIronySocial Critique Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.
HypocrisySeparation of Church and State I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!
Cultural NormsEthicsHumilityHypocrisySelf-awareness I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.
AdherenceHypocrisyRepresentation As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
AuthenticityDeceptionHypocrisyIdentity Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
CriticismHypocrisyPublic PerceptionSincerity It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
AccountabilityHypocrisyMisuse Of PowerObligation When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
ConflictDeceptionHypocrisyPropaganda All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
ForgivenessHypocrisyJudgmentMercyMorality Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.
DestructionHypocrisyMisuse of Knowledge Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
HypocrisyMorality I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
