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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

~ Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Doing Hypocrisy Saying

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 an animal. Back home that night, Papa told Mama that it was sinful. You did not bow to another human being. It was an ungodly tradition, bowing to an Igwe. So, a few days later, when we went to see the bishop at Awka, I did not kneel to kiss his ring. I wanted to make Papa proud. But Papa yanked my ear in the car and said I did not have the spirit of discernment: the bishop was a man of God; the Igwe was merely a traditional ruler.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Hypocrisy Religion

Agnes: I have a question for you, speaking of truth. You say God speaks the truth. Tóti: Yes. Agnes: And God said: 'Thou shalt not kill.'Tóti: Yes. Tóti said carefully. Agnes: Then Blondal and the rest are going against God. They're hypocrites. They say they are carrying out God's law but they are only doing the will of men.

~ Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent Capital Punishment Hypocrisy Hypocrites

The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn't had any since Texas. He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, a bloody slab of cow haunch, a hen's sinewy skeleton; these ghosts have been minced and destroyed and painlessly merged with the shapes of insensate vegetables, plump green bodies that invite his appetite's innocent gusto. Candy.

~ John Updike

John Updike 1960 Chinese Food Hypocrisy Meat Vegetarianism

There was an exceeding good concert, but too much talking to hear it well. Indeed I am quite astonished to find how little music is attended to in silence; for, though every body seems to admire, hardly any body listens.

~ Fanny Burney

Fanny Burney Hypocrisy Music Appreciation

Here was someone who had dismissed most of what I had just been saying as too obvious to even discuss, yet apparently it wasn't obvious enough. I realized that he was the living embodiment of one of the greatest paradoxes of human behavior:Common sense is not common action.

~ Shawn Achor

Shawn Achor Common Sense Hypocrisy

Wisdom of the Ages: Ferguson Riots They were ready to tear America to shreds over their grief-right until the TV cameras left to cover the football games.

~ Matthew Heines

Matthew Heines Ferguson Protests Humorous Quotations Hypocrisy

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 had covered the wall space behind her desk with pictures of fluffy kitties; she was the most bigoted, spiteful champion of the death penalty with whom it has ever been my misfortune to share a kettle.A love of all things saccharine often seems present where there is a lack of real warmth or charity.

~ J.k. Rowling

J.k. Rowling Harry Potter Related Hypocrisy Inspirational Office Politics Twee

But I cant stand saying one thing when everyone knows I mean another. Whats the use in such hypocrisy? If people arrange the world that way for women, theres no good pretending it’s arranged the other way...

~ George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Hypocrisy

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: it hurts.

~ George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Hypocrisy

We’re all looking for a bit of recognition, even if it’s the unconscious and hypocritical need for attention over the fact that we’re not publically seeking out attention.

~ Abby Rosmarin

Abby Rosmarin Attention Hypocrisy Hypocrisy In Everyone Life

I made up three lists: Candidate's Accomplishments (real and imaginary), Accusations Against Opponent (including rumours, allegations, innuendos, and lies), and Empty Promises (the more improbable, the better). Then it was merely a matter of taking various combinations of items from the three lists, throwing in some bombast, tossing in a few local references, and, there it was - a brand new speech.

~ Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry Hypocrisy Political Speeches Politicians Politics

Trying to effect change in others is a lost cause especially if you are unwilling to first change yourself. It’s easier to focus on other people’s issues or shortcomings rather than look inward. It’s counter-productive to try to clean someone else’s house, while your house is a disaster. Not to mention, hypocritical. Start with yourself and then worry about others. ~Jason Versey

~ Jason Versey

Jason Versey Hypocrisy

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

~ Joel Mcdonald

Joel Mcdonald Hypocrisy Narcicssist Narcissism

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 virgin, but she’s pure-hearted, loves and cares for you, respects your parents, is true to you and remains by your side for the rest of your life? What will matter more? Her virginity, or her nature?

~ Mehek Bassi

Mehek Bassi Chauvinism Hypocrisy India Males Misogyny Virginity

I see you exhausted by poisonous flies, I see you bleeding and torn at a hundred spots, and your pride refuses even to be angry. They would have blood from you in all innocence, blood is what bloodless souls crave - and therefore they sting in all innocence.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche Hypocrisy Innocence

God help me, how Tolstoy sweats over drying up people's sources of life, of wild and joyful life, drying them up and making the world fat with the love of God and everyman. ... But the man is old, after all, his fountains of life run dry, without a trace remaining of human affections. ... Only someone who has become slow and watertight with old age, satiated and hardened with pleasure, will go to youth and say, Renounce! ... And yet the youth renounces nothing, but sins royally for forty years. Such is the course of nature!

~ Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun Hypocrisy Tolstoy

A hypocritical businessman, whose fortune had been the misfortune of many others, told Mark Twain piously, “Before I die I intend to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I want to climb to the top of Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud.” “I have a better idea,” suggested Twain. “Why don’t you stay right at home in Boston and keep them?

~ Mark Twain

Mark Twain Hypocrisy

I met two or three men who were very kind to me. There was a magistrate who couldn't stand priests, and a priest who didn't have a good word to say for magistrates; and there was a landlord who let furnished rooms by the hour and spoke highly of both priests and magistrates, because both were his best clients.

~ Pitigrilli

Pitigrilli Bigotry Hypocrisy Magistrate Priest

False conversions are a wart on the face of Christian evangelism.

~ Kevin Roose

Kevin Roose Evangelism Hypocrisy

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

~ Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams Humor Hypocrisy

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 virtue of being free, is intractable and incalculable, a truly Godlike gift, the faculty that makes a state of freedom possible. To exist in a state of freedom is a wild, strange thing, and was clearly intended as such. But what to the religions do with this? They say, Very well, you possess free will; but now you must use your free will to enslave yourself to God and to us. The effrontery of it! God, who would not coerce a fly, is painted as a supreme slavemaster! In the fact of this, any creature with spirit must rebel, must serve God entirely of his own will and volition, or must not serve him at all, thus remaining true to himself and to the faculties God has given him.

~ Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley Free Will Hypocrisy Religion

He who laughs worst, weeps first

~ Paul Haddad

Paul Haddad Hypocrisy Indians Summer Camp

...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 it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.

~ Tehmina Durrani

Tehmina Durrani Hypocrisy Purdah

It was the sixties, exactly, all we wanted to do was to smoke a lot of dope and ball a lot of chicks. Vietnam, excuse me? Why would I wanna go get my ass shot off in some stinking rice paddy just so Nixon can have his four more years? Screw that, and I wasn't the only one who felt that way. All the big warmongers these days who took a pass on Vietnam, look, I'd be the last person on earth to start casting blame. Bush, Cheney, Rove, all those guys, they just did what everybody else was doing and I was right there with 'em, chicken as anybody. My problem now is how tough and gung-ho they are, all that bring it on crap, I mean, Jesus, show a little humility, people. They ought to be just as careful of your young lives as they were with their own.

~ Ben Fountain

Ben Fountain Hypocrisy

The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.

~ T.h. White

T.h. White Cynicism Decency Hypocrisy

But I am scared. Everybody's scared.You know what I mean, like scared scared. Like coward scared, like if you never went to begin with. But with everything you've done nobody's going to doubt you. Then she made a somewhat frantic speech about a website she found that listed how certain people had avoided Vietnam. Cheney, Four education deferments, then a hardship 3-A. Limbaugh,4-F thanks to a cyst on his ass. Pat Buchanan, 4-F. Newt Gingrich, grad school deferment. Karl Rove, did not serve. Bill O'Reilly, did not serve. John Ashcroft, did not serve. Bush, AWOL from the Air National Guard, with a check mark in the do not volunteer box as to service overseas.You see where I'm going with this?'Well, yeah.I'm just saying, those people want a war so bad, they can fight it themselves. Billy Lynn's done his part.

~ Ben Fountain

Ben Fountain Hypocrisy

Ashe was typical of that strata of mankind which conducts its human relationships according to a principle of challenge and response. Where there was softness, he would advance; where he found resistance, retreat. Having himself no particular opinions or tastes he relied upon whatever conformed with those of his companion. He was as ready to drink tea at Fortnum's as beer at the Prospect of Whitby; he would listen to military music in St. James's Park or jazz in Compton Street cellar; his voice would tremble with sympathy when he spoke of Sharpeville, or with indignation at the growth of Britain's colored population. To Leamas this observably passive role was repellent; it brought out the bully in him, so that he would lead the other gently into a position where he was committed, and then himself withdraw, so that Ashe was constantly scampering back from some cul-de-sac into which Leamas had enticed him.

~ John Le Carré

John Le Carré Hypocrisy Intrigue Spying

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

~ Charles Edward Montague

Charles Edward Montague Chickenhawk Hypocrisy Militarism War

Hypocrisy is when you get mad at a friend for telling their other friend a secret that your other friend told you.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Friendships Hypocrisy Secret

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.

~ Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Adlai Ewing Stevenson Hypocrisy Richard Nixon

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!

~ Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton Ellen Olenska Hypocrisy New York Pulitzer Prize Social Criticism

I really wished he hadn't made me hate to read the Bible. Having it shoved down my throat all my life had made me bitter toward reading it. I believed it, but my dad had used it to his benefit too many times and ignored the parts in there that would point out his wrongs. Like judging Beau without even knowing him. That was in the Bible too.

~ Abbi Glines

Abbi Glines Hypocrisy Judging Judging People Religion

Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness

~ Herman Melville

Herman Melville Hypocrisy

Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Enslavement Freedom Hypocrisy Insincerity

Other than damnation I know no magic to satisfy your wishes; for ye believe one thing, desire another, speak unlike, act differently and obtain the living value.

~ Austin Osman Spare

Austin Osman Spare Anathema Of Zos Hypocrisy

As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on earth harbors any illusions about it? These are people whose histories are spongy with the blood of others. Colonialism, apartheid, slavery, ethnic cleansing, germ warfare, chemical weapons - they virtually invented it all.

~ Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy Colonialism European Civilization History Hypocrisy International Development Post Colonial Theory Postcolonialism Third World Feminism Western Civilization Western History Western Hypocrisy

The facts are always frightening, and in all of us fear of the facts is constantly at work, constantly being fuelled; but this morbid fear must not lead us to conceal the facts and so to falsify the whole of human history -- which is of course part of natural history -- and pass it on in falsified form just because it is customary to do so, when we know that all history is falsified and always transmitted in falsified form.

~ Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard History Hypocrisy

If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six times that morning), 'you go into the sitting-room and you say, “Oh, what an attractive room! even if you think it's hideous.

~ Dick Francis

Dick Francis Hypocrisy Politeness Politicians

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.

~ J. Christopher Herold

J. Christopher Herold Authority Family Values Hypocrisy Napoleon
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