There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.
Charles DickensMurdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere
George W. BushTags: hypocrisy
I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics:
Plagiarize!
Plagiarize!
Let no one else's work evade your eyes!
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes!
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -
Only be sure always to call it please 'research'."
[Lobachevsky]
Tags: originality hypocrisy research plagiarism cheating copycats
And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. There was a proud and very profane young man [aboard the Mayflower], one of the seamen, of a lusty, able body, which made him the more haughty; he would always be contemning the poor people in their [sea]sickness, and cursing them daily with grievous execrations, and did not let to tell them, that he hoped to help cast half of them overboard before they came to their journey's end, and to make merry with what they had; and if he were by any gently reproved, he would curse and swear most bitterly.
But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard. Thus his curses light on his own head; and it was an astonishment to all his fellows, for they noted it to be the just hand of God upon him.
Tags: humor hypocrisy providence pilgrims vengeance
I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.
Johnny CashTags: individuality religion status-quo hypocrisy black
When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
Bette DavisTags: empowerment gender women opinions feminism misogyny hypocrisy stereotypes double-standards clichés speaking-out
The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
Tags: poetry vegetarianism animal-cruelty hypocrisy
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Noël CowardTags: honesty morality hypocrisy deceit top-8 shock
... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.
D.A. CarsonTags: hypocrisy spirituality parenthood
People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.
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