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Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on ...

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Noam ChomskyGaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

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Noam ChomskyImperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises i...

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It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the soci...

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So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it...

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You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.

Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like...

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I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never sa...

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I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all th...

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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to ...

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I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously wh...

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time....

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, yo...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

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

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right wi...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intent...

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You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided t...

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Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they woul...

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And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Ou...

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Peter WeissThe Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or p...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and no...

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She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

It's the deep, fundamental bedrock of hypocrisy upon which religion is founded. Consider: no creatur...

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For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. ...

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People forget how vulnerable they are despite their shirts and shoes and briefcases, how this hungry...

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Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.''And not a single coin are they...

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I made up three lists: Candidate's Accomplishments (real and imaginary), Accusations Against Opponen...

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A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia get...

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One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be...

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Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many cr...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...

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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an ev...

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Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

Religion has clearly performed great services for human civilization. It has contributed much toward...

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Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not t...

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Sigmund FreudThe Interpretation of Dreams

When Buzz gets in, he won't be having any parade of wounded soldiers. That'll be bad Fascist psychol...

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The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assum...

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Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that dece...

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T. H. WhiteThe Once and Future King

Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent...

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We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're...

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I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.In one word he told me secret of succes...

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The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us...

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The child watched its disappearance--he was astounded but dreamy. His stupefaction was complicated b...

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This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, th...

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...

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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself roun...

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

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...

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He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Wome...

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The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.

And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. There was a proud and very profane young...

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And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. There was a proud and very profane young...

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And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. There was a proud and very profane young...

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And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. There was a proud and very profane young...

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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocris...

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the st...

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...sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

The critics greeted this book with a churlish and horrified outcry. Certain virtuous people, in news...

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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers...

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I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all...

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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that...

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There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pou...

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Mrs. Baker's social manner was almost robotlike in its perfection. All her comments and remarks were...

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And families now, families who have been separated throughout the year, assemble once more together....

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Agatha ChristieHercule Poirot's Christmas

For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance o...

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I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever tru...

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The Americans of the United States do not let their dogs hunt the Indians as do the Spaniards in Mex...

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We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, a...

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All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't...

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If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, a...

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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was t...

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I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was high...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compa...

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As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Wh...

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Both Yassi and I know that we have been losing our faith. We have been questioning it with every mov...

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Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Tehran

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

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

It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference ...

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It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference ...

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It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference ...

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It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference ...

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