#hypocrisy

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy. ↗

— Lord Byron

#homage #hypocrisy #only #pay #virtue

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#contemporary #contemporary history #contribution #ends #expose

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#candor #democracy #hypocrisy #important #place

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life. ↗

— Al Franken

#christian #christian right #culture #extreme #extreme poverty

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. ↗

— David E. Price

#also #arrogance #basic #country #disagree

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#advocate #arrows #cows #hypocrisy #into

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#absurd #because #cartoonist #could #define

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#vice #virtue #hypocrisy

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#parenthood #hypocrisy

He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it! ↗

— Emily Brontë

#revenge #hypocrisy