Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves

Reinhold Niebuhr

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Sarah Silverman

We don't live in a democracy; we live in a hypocrisy.

Richard Pryor

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

Robin Williams

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Samuel Johnson

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Vivienne Westwood

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

Voltaire

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Rob Lowe

I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Moira Kelly

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Robert Cray

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Richard M. Nixon

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Richard M. Nixon

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Daniel O'Connell

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Harry McDonald

I think that you will see the morale lifted,

Matthew Arnold

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Cillian Murphy

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

Richard Hofstadter

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.

Reinhold Niebuhr

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

Woodrow Wilson

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

Robert D. Kaplan

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

Tucker Carlson

We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.