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What makes it
so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices
is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all
other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it
is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil;
but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
-- Hannah Arendt
1906-1975, German-born
American Political Philosopher
And why do you
look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not
notice the log that is in your own eye? [Matthew 7:3]
-- Bible
Sacred Scriptures of
Christians and Judaism
Keep thy
smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee
not.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
We ought to
see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author
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If we divine a
discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the
whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he
revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the
good in him is hardly accepted.
-- Charles Horton Cooley
1864-1929, American
Sociologist
With affection
beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the
other.
-- Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist
There are two
sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their
outward morality and external religion; and the others;
those that are deceived with false discoveries and
elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own
righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same
time make righteousness of their discoveries, and of their
humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.
-- Jonathan Edwards
1703-1758, British
Theologian, Metaphysician
At the
entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
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