#hypocrisy

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#charity #dogs #generosity #hypocrisy #pets

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 accurately conducted on a global scale—might perhaps be a proper task in the United States. At the same level of integrity, disciplined Soviet intellectuals are horrified over real or alleged American crimes, but perceive their own only as benevolent intent gone awry, or errors of an earlier day, now overcome; the comparison is inexact and unfair, since Soviet intellectuals can plead fear as an excuse for their services to state violence. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#consensus #fear #hypocrisy #intellectuals #international-law

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them. ↗

— Aristophanes

#falsehood #government #hypocrisy #politics #popularity

Nothing optional—from homosexuality to adultery—is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate. As Shakespeare put it in King Lear, the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#closeted #homosexuality #hypocrisy #prohibition #religion

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#piety #religion #religion

Christians have their own Jihads - holy wars. Instead though of killing people physically, they kill them with their words, with their rejection, with their hatred, with their hypocrisy. All in the name of what? Religion? ↗

— ek

#hypocrisy #religion #religion

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#judgement #pharisee #hypocrisy

We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others. ↗

— José Emilio Pacheco

#judgement #battle

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice. ↗

— John Adams

#cowardice #decency #hypocrisy #politeness #cowardice

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available. ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#hypocrisy #self-awareness #humility