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«The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
area, assessment, despised, fraud, Human Relations, hypocritical, mocking, realistic, rely, sexes, whore
«Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| Keywords:
arrogance, early, former, humility, hypocritical
«Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.»
«Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . .»
Author: Potter Stewart
(Judge)
| About:
Media,
Newspapers,
Television
| Keywords:
abusive, arrogant, eliminate, elimination, hypocritical, networks, outrageously, television networks, untruthful
«Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.»
«Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.»
«But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: / With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Against Me, feasts, gnash, gnashed, gnashing, hypocritical, mocker, mockers
«Hypocritical reader, my double, my brother!»
«Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.»
«For him who confesses, shams are over and realities have begun; he has exteriorized his rottenness. If he has not actually got rid of it, he at least no longer smears it over with a hypocritical show of virtue -- he lives at least upon a basis of veracity.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
confesses, hypocritical, realities, rottenness, shams, smear, smeared, smearing, smears, veracity
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