Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary. Akbar
Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.
No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you. Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. A. E. Housman
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that only the few will be saved and the many damned, have been shed, replaced by strummed guitars and saccharine smiles. It has reinvented itself so often, and with such breath-taking hypocrisy, in the interests of retaining its hold on the gullible, that a medieval monk who woke today, like Woody Allen in Sleeper, would not be able to recognise the faith that bears the same name as his own. A.C. Grayling
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that only the few will be saved and the many damned, have been shed, replaced by strummed guitars and saccharine smiles. It has reinvented itself so often, and with such breath-taking hypocrisy, in the interests of retaining its hold on the gullible, that a medieval monk who woke today, like Woody Allen in Sleeper, would not be able to recognise the faith that bears the same name as his own.
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally. Alan Dershowitz
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.
I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason. Alexander Theroux
I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.
If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable. Al Smith
If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood. Alexander Pope
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place. Alan Dershowitz
Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. Alexander Theroux
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor". Albert Camus
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".
False friends leave you in times of trouble. Aesop
False friends leave you in times of trouble.
Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice. Aeschylus
Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently. Albert Camus
I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance. Ada Leverson
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before. A. J. Liebling
My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
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