#hypocrisy

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

It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-at-homes. There are no humane methods of warfare, there is no such thing as civilized warfare; all warfare is inhuman, all warfare is barbaric; the first blast of the bugles of war ever sounds for the time being the funeral knell of human progress… What lover of humanity can view with anything but horror the prospect of this ruthless destruction of human life. Yet this is war: war for which all the jingoes are howling, war to which all the hopes of the world are being sacrificed, war to which a mad ruling class would plunge a mad world. ↗

— James Connolly

#civilized #death #destruction #elite #humanity

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#expression #eyes #hypocrisy #hypocrisy

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. ↗

— George Orwell

#man #shooting-an-elephant #hypocrisy

How can I clearly see what’s wrong with someone else, and then look at myself as though I’m standing in front of a fogged mirror?
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— Jarod Kintz

#delusional #delusions #hypocrisy #hypocrisy

When I see you, I think "I wonder which face she sees when she looks into the mirror. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fakery #having-many-faces #hypocrisy #hypocrites #more-than-one-face

True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#judgement #male-ego #hypocrisy

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#contempt #dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#come #democracy #hypocrisy #idea #imperatives