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.

Umberto Eco

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

Warren E. Burger

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Sarah Churchwell

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

Sandra Bullock

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

Walter Lang

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

William Julius Wilson

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

Zoe Saldana

I've witnessed racism all my life. And of course there's racism and discrimination in Hollywood. You go for a part and they say, 'Oh, we really liked her, she's amazing, but we wanted to go with something more traditional'. As if I'm not a traditional American!

Neal Boortz

Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.

Margaret Walker

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

Matthew McConaughey

Kids will remind you that, even though you've gone down a road 100 times, it's brand new for them - and that's healthy.

Bobby Vinton

I wrote that song 'Melody Of Love', the one with the Polish lyrics, because over the years I had gone to Italy, Germany, South America.

Mohamed Sifaoui

Karim recognized me and realized we had gone to high school together in Algeria,

Davey Lopes

Just once, you should've been selfish and gone for it,

Lyle Bauer

It addresses many things that have gone on in the league, and cleans up some things.

Rachel Miller

I think it must have happened right before dark. She would have gone in at dark.

Laura Anderson

I think it is a parent thing. I'm not a skier myself. I guess I thought I was just being a worrywart. Hondo got hurt on a jump he had gone off many times.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.

Bobby Johnson

He could have gone out to the NFL, probably got himself some money, and he wouldn't have to worry about Vanderbilt's win-loss record,