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...

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.

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.

Unwell? I was fine, as good as one might feel in such circumstances. No, my friend, I merely pretended to faint. I’m a good actress. Actually, a thought had come into my mind: if a...

Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God’s law and do wrong.” However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who...

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I’m like,’Come on, you’ve got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.

It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed;...

People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!

In the realm of power, Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. This...

Ce sper eu e sa fac de ras lumea literara. Sa rad pe cat pot de netrebnicii astia lingusitori, adunati ca intr-un musuroi, care se pupa-n fund unul pe altul si isi ling ranile in...

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 however they...

Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

Alcohol is evil … until your loved one gets employed by a brewery.

It’s the deep, fundamental bedrock of hypocrisy upon which religion is founded. Consider: no creature can be said to worship if it does not possess free will. Free will, however, is FREE. And just by...

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Thus that Upright Judge, whose three Letters my Friend having read, did well approve of ’em, acknowledging, that with great Exactness he had distinguished between Religion and Priest-craft: And he added, If you will shew...

As children we are taught, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!” As adults we teach those same words to our own children while simultaneously we sue one another...

The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to fallen televangelists but to each of us. We miss Jesus’...

Some people’s blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.

[E]verywhere I’m looking at kids, adults mostly don’t seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again...

And when I speak, I don’t speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America’s so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy – all we’ve...

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

What if you get a virgin (or what you call – pure) girl, and she disrespects you, has affairs outside, insults your parents and becomes a bitch after marriage? And what if the girl isn’t...

Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is them. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western culture, suffices...

…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, when...

True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What’s sadder is when they are Christian.

All people may not always know those who are not actually good, but they sooner or later get to know all those who are always relatively good.

Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or...

Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your...

Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don’t let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you’re part of the crowd that will...

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.

…in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

I couldn’t tell anyone how I felt because I knew they wouldn’t understand. Oh, poor little Christina, falling for the bad man who treats her like dirt because she didn’t know any better. And isn’t...

Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don’t, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don’t, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease. Stand up for truth. If...

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

If you want to help someone move on, you don’t label people as good, bad, worst or best. This categorizes people, rather than experiences with that person. People are not all evil or all good....

We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the triumph of virtue, as well as in the moral...

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy,...

They lived off each other’s hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.

I have noticed more than once in life that a taste for the ineffably twee can go hand-in-hand with a distinctly uncharitable outlook on the world, I once shared an office with a woman who...

The American people are fed up…with political posturing.’ True, but also an example of political posturing.

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...

Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what’s beyond ahead.

Do you really believe … that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who...