In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

She was sobbing for help, but her sobbing wails died within the four walls of the room under the clamorous slogans raised by a mob on the road, which had gathered near the masjid just...

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to...

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being...

The Church is full of Hypocrites!” Yes, it is, and thank God for that, it means the church is doing its job. The church wants hypocrites, adulterers, thieves, and more, for the church is where...

Rich or poor it’s nice to have money

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it’s someone else’s witch being hunted.

People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.

Tolerance level of each one changes as per situation – Is it Hypocrisy ?

God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you — yet...

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what’s being said is the party line.

The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above,...

It’s amazing how people come to you griping about other individuals. However, you sometimes hear them out, and you sympathise with them. You observe them, and you see the exceptional thing they are complaining about....

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

We must take the long view—every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition.

The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn’t had any since Texas. He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, a bloody slab of cow haunch, a...

He who acquired all his wealth by *being at the right place at the right time* is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his *being at the wrong place at...

Yes, it was a “beautiful” sermon, tugging the emotions and conjuring up pictures of greatness and peace. But were they talking about the decent peppery ordinary old man he knew, or had the subject strayed...

He who laughs worst, weeps first

When people don’t respect one another seldom is there honesty.

If Christian teachers wish to recall Christian people to domesticity the first necessity is to stop telling lies about home life and to substitute realistic teaching.

Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against...

In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from service during his draft-eligible years.

L’editore mandò cento copie del volume, per tutto compenso dell’opera: il valore non superava quello dell’olio e del vino rubati in cantina; e il grosso pacco piombò in casa come un bolide sconquassatore. La madre...

Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has.

I was more at home in my father’s world. People like Mr. Heck Tate did not trap you with innocent questions to make fun of you; even Jem was not highly critical unless you said...

Elle se sentait en même temps indignée contre tous ses voisins, et humiliée d’avoir cedé, souillée par les baisers de ce Prussien entre les bras duquel on l’avait hypocritement jetée.

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leprous.

Shared grief is just pride with a sad face.

Hé quoi ? vous ne ferez nulle distinctionEntre l’hypocrisie et la dévotion? Vous les voulez traiter d’un semblable langage,Et rendre même honneur au masque qu’au visage,Égaler l’artifice à la sincérité,Confondre l’apparence avec la vérité,Estimer le...

The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has, through the dead and desolate years, slowly and painfully advanced. He has been...

There is an irony in how Christians talk about and understand sexuality. Christians often lament the world’s reductionism of sex to genital interaction and raw physical pleasures, but then they typically reduce a gay person’s...

Why wear a mask on halloween if you wear one every day?

When I see you, I think “I wonder which face she sees when she looks into the mirror.

Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness

The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass.

Agnes: “I have a question for you, speaking of truth. You say God speaks the truth.” Tóti: “Yes.” Agnes: “And God said: ‘Thou shalt not kill.’Tóti: “Yes. Tóti said carefully.” Agnes: “Then Blondal and the...

Never start a sentence with the words ‘No offense.

Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

Look at the tyranny of party– at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty– a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes– and which turns voters into chattels, slaves, rabbits; and all the while,...

Creating some god for one’s inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.

The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, “hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.

[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, “Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion uttered too quickly and thoughtlessly by the mouth of a woman! A woman...

Morality is a subject to meddle in the affairs of other persons, guided by our preferences and convenience.

[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man’s wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false...

Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd’s can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full...

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

How can I clearly see what’s wrong with someone else, and then look at myself as though I’m standing in front of a fogged mirror?

My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same thing about men? (…)Response [by Lady Rectitude]: “Fair sweet friend, have you not...