Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. M. Forster

The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.

Sigmund Freud

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

J. I. Packer

Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

Hannah Arendt

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

GG Allin

I don't want people to think I'm a hypocrite.

Frank Herbert

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

Ishmael Reed

[David] Mamet is another hypocrite. His idea of Black man is a pimp who abuses women, [Edmond], yet his play Oleanna [1994] ends with a White professor slapping an uppity feminist, at least the version I saw at San Francisco's ACT.

Georg Groddeck

Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

Brandon Sanderson

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

Barbara Lee

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

Alain Badiou

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Al Franken

During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'

Jared Diamond

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

B. R. Hayden

The only possibility of reform in Los Angeles, which is a 'see no, hear no evil' city, is if there is the glaring eye of outside investigators from Sacramento and from Washington D.C.,

Daniel H. Wilson

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Bob Dole

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

Blaise Pascal

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

Doc Holliday

It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.

D. H. Lawrence

Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

Rajneesh

My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.

Marie Corelli

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

Martin Parr

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

Mignon McLaughlin

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

Frances Wright

it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.

George Eliot

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.