#hypocrisy

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

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#hypocrisy

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#madness #reality #hypocrisy

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

Hypocrisy annoys me, people need to look into mirrors. Let me hold a mirror in front of your face. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#hypocrisy #hypocrisy

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best ↗

— O. Henry

#hypocrisy #liars #hypocrisy

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

— Oswald Chambers

#judgement #pharisee #hypocrisy