170 quotes found
“Truth is an outlaw in every country.”
“Automatic praise is a mere succession of noises.”
“This is neither the time nor the place, however, to ponder how often the soul, in order to be able to boast of a clean body, has burdened itself with sadness, envy, and impurity.”
“It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".”
“The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass.”
“The nice people do not come to God, because they think they are good through their own merits or bad through inherited instincts. If they do good, they believe they are to receive the credit for it...”
“Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue.”
“Excessive religiosity is killing so many religious people knowingly or unknowingly”
“I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.”
“For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called "modern world" are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do ...”
“Chinese immigrant: "Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.”
“Simulated ardor is a shameful form of lying.”
“...in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.”
“We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatall...”
“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”
“Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all t...”
“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.”
“The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.”
“For even though the rest of the city--no, the rest of the country--starved and searched fruitlessly for work and slept in a humpy in the park, society's finest could still squander their money howe...”
“There is so much hypocrisy in sports.”
