170 quotes found
“When you turn your back on hypocrisy and do nothing you dont change the hearts of others you change yours.”
“Tolerance level of each one changes as per situation - Is it Hypocrisy ?”
“... it's pointless to think in moral terms when everything is permissible. We have become the people we detest. We have lost the capacity to imagine what is forbidden We have been freed, in other w...”
“The famous atheist Christopher Hitchens once declared that Youre expelled from your mothers uterus as if shot from a cannon, towards a barn door studded with old nail files and rusty hooks. Presuma...”
“In the days following the crash, an axiom as old as the Republic came into play once more. In good times Wall Street wanted Washington to leave it alone. In bad times it wanted Washington to act.”
“There was an exceeding good concert, but too much talking to hear it well. Indeed I am quite astonished to find how little music is attended to in silence; for, though every body seems to admire, h...”
“When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises”
“But I cant stand saying one thing when everyone knows I mean another. Whats the use in such hypocrisy? If people arrange the world that way for women, theres no good pretending its arranged the oth...”
“CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, its my business to tell other people the truth; but its not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts.”
“I made up three lists: Candidate's Accomplishments (real and imaginary), Accusations Against Opponent (including rumours, allegations, innuendos, and lies), and Empty Promises (the more improbable,...”
“Trying to effect change in others is a lost cause especially if you are unwilling to first change yourself. Its easier to focus on other peoples issues or shortcomings rather than look inward. Its ...”
“Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can't hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth.”
“God help me, how Tolstoy sweats over drying up people's sources of life, of wild and joyful life, drying them up and making the world fat with the love of God and everyman. ... But the man is old, ...”
“A hypocritical businessman, whose fortune had been the misfortune of many others, told Mark Twain piously, Before I die I intend to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I want to climb to the top of...”
“He who laughs worst, weeps first”
“...my mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud,...”
“It was the sixties, exactly, all we wanted to do was to smoke a lot of dope and ball a lot of chicks. Vietnam, excuse me? Why would I wanna go get my ass shot off in some stinking rice paddy just s...”
“But I am scared. Everybody's scared.""You know what I mean, like scared scared. Like coward scared, like if you never went to begin with. But with everything you've done nobody's going to doubt you...”
“Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.”
“We are not hypocrites in our sleep.”
