#hypocrisy

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch. ↗

— Bette Davis

#double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender #hypocrisy

I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#youth #youth

Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry. ↗

— Julie Metz

#hypocrisy

Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere ↗

— George W. Bush

#ideology

The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves. ↗

— R.C. Sproul

#hypocrisy #repentance #faith

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#hypocrisy #most #politeness

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#hypocrisy #kitchen

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#among #away #beheld #chased #contact

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is them. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western culture, suffices to undermine even the most precise analogy and the most impeccable reasoning. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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