Quotes tagged ‘Hypocrisy’

“Brett Ridgeman: Politics like always. Lt. Calvert: Like cell phones, and just as annoying, politics are everywhere. Being branded a racist in today's public forum is like being accused of being a communist in the 50s, whether it’s a possibly racist remark made in a private phone call or the indelica…”

— S. Craig Zahler, Anthony Lurasetti, Vince Vaughn, imdb.com

“Even as I write this, though, I’m not entirely sure that making these allegations more visible does any good, and whether it necessarily creates a situation where reparative justice is possible.”

— Anna Merlan, jezebel.com

“We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes because it's obscene!”

— John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Marlon Brando, imdb.com

“Senator Pat Geary: I despise your masquerade, the dishonest way you pose yourself. You and your whole fucking family. Michael Corleone: We're both part of the same hypocrisy, senator, but never think it applies to my family.”

— Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Don Michael Corleone, Al Pacino, imdb.com

“You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin’ fingers and say, ‘That’s the bad guy.’ So what that make you? Good? You’re not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie.”

— Oliver Stone, Tony Montana, Al Pacino, imdb.com

“They're hypocrite cocksuckers. And the fuckin' lyin' instruments and tactics they use to fuck people up the ass can be turned against them.”

— Elizabeth Sarnoff, Al Swearengen, Ian McShane, imdb.com

“Sheriff Andy Taylor: Anybody here know why these two should not be wed, speak now or forever hold your peace. I now pronounce you man... Opie Taylor: I know why they shouldn't be married. Sheriff Andy Taylor: Opie, what're you tryin' to do? Opie Taylor: I'm speakin' now so's I won't have to forever…”

— Jack Elinson, Charles Stewart, Opie Taylor, Ron Howard, imdb.com

“I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christia…”

— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com

“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, - a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, - and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of the slave…”

— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com

“You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.”

— Shams Tabrizi, amazon.com

“All my associates, all of my surroundings, the atmosphere of deceit, treachery, brutality, degeneracy, hypocrisy, and everything that is bad and nothing that is good. Why am I what I am? I'll tell you why. I did not make myself what I am. Others had the making of me.”

— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu

“It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final break-through to fellowship does not occur, because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout people, they…”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“Levy: You are amoral, are you not? You are feeding off the violence and the despair of the drug trade. You're stealing from those who themselves are stealing the lifeblood from our city. You are a parasite who leeches off— Omar: Just like you, man. Levy: —the culture of drugs...excuse me, what? Omar…”

— David Simon, imdb.com

“How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that all men are created equal. We now practically read it all men are created equal, except negroes…”

— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org

“You're a hypocrite, Dean. How did you feel when Dad sold his soul for you? 'Cause I was there. I remember. You were twisted and broken. And now you go and do the same thing...to me. What you did was selfish.”

— Eric Kripke, Sam Winchester, Jared Padalecki, imdb.com

“The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.”

— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.org

“The first commandment states: ‘I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.’ But two of the seven deadly sins are vanity and envy. Fucking Hypocrite!”

— Unknown, tcat.tc

“One of journalism’s most important tasks is exposing the hypocrisy of the powerful.”

— Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, jezebel.com

“It’s so sad to see a pop star like Lorde going over to the dark side of bigotry and antisemitism at such a young age. Even more hypocritical was her announcement that she would be keeping her engagements in Putin’s Russia, that global font of Nobel-prize grade humanitarianism. Lorde’s decision to pl…”

— Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, breitbart.com

“Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.”

— Larry Flynt, esquire.com