Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.

Christian” has an eulogistic rather than a descriptive sense: e.g. “Christian standards” means simply “high moral standards”. The presupposition “So-and-so is not a Christian” would only be taken to be a criticism of his behavior,...

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him — or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great...

To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the only possible result of despotism on either level is hypocrisy.

Ebenso hilft es der Seele nichts, wenn der Leib heilige Kleider anlegt, wie’s die Priester und Geistlichen tun, auch nicht, wenn er sich in Kirchen und heiligen Stätten befindet; auch nicht, wenn er sich mit...

Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can’t hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth.

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment—which would yield a monstrous toll if...

I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

This kind can come forth by nothing but prayer and fasting.” Is there a Christian in the whole world who would believe such a story if found in any other book?The trouble is, these pious...

A person is only as fair to oneself as the people often hanging around him or her, here and there, truly care towards ones who are not personally or professionally related to them anywhere.

Al Gore Jr. acted with honor and conviction in volunteering for service in a war he despised. … To save the seat of his father — a political warrior in the cause of peace —...

Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi hupata jeuri ya kusema hivyo kutokana na umaskini wa watu wanaowazunguka.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

Mama had greeted him the traditional way that women were supposed to, bending low and offering him her back so that he would pat it with his fan made of the soft, straw-colored tail of...

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically he studied the scores of the great masters. At the end of the...

Truth is an outlaw in every country.

I am not superior than anybody, don’t say i am, else i won’t defend you when you get caught.

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn’t write a novel,...

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

The Americans of the United States do not let their dogs hunt the Indians as do the Spaniards in Mexico, but at bottom it is the same pitiless feeling which here, as everywhere else, animates...

You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!What has your politics fed onsince you’ve been ruling the world?On butchery and murder!

Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as treating the Congress of the United States like ‘a plantation,’ adding in a...

CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it’s my business to tell other people the truth; but it’s not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it:...

Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn’t a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men...

Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend!

[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are...

Look at him! He said he was going home, but there he is crawling into a bog!” No, do not gloat, but give me your help and support.

So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed. And justice comes with a sell-by date. In that case, you’d better hurry. You wouldn’t want...

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of...

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

Nothing short of the end of the world would get our eco-conscious techies to toss their latest gadgets onto the street.

Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

No.”Perhaps, Adelia thought drearily, it was only a very old woman who could look hopefully on a single brick laid in a wasteland.

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job’s sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is...

God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?

Compassion is not a sometime action; it’s an every time passion! You can’t be compassionate for less than 7 days in one week… That’s first class hypocrisy!

Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -!

I’ve been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don’t affect your judgement. The...

It’s convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or “enhanced interrogation techniques” as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.

He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle – that should be his tone.

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

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 fatally contagious,...

…sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

Life is like an extremely toughest examination and so the passing percentage of its students is abysmally low; a person with his 70 % contributions of the true kind deeds has only cleared it with...