Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [261-280] of 332 Hypocrisy quotesHypocrisy QuotesHypocrisy Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only people in the world that has to keep a government four years no matter what it does.~ Will Rogers The test for whether one is living in a police state is that those who are charged with enforcing the law are allowed to break the laws with impunity.~ Jon Roland Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it.~ Eleanor Roosevelt To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.~ Theodore Roosevelt When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'~ Theodore Roosevelt Any man who tries to incite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do so in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainty that class’s own worst enemy.~ Theodore Roosevelt 'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.~ Theodore Roosevelt There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindness in favour of systematic hatred.~ Bertrand Russell The practical objection to Puritanism, as to every form of fanaticism, is that it singles out certain evils as so much worse than others that they must be suppressed at all costs. The fanatic fails to recognise that the suppression of a real evil, if carried out too drastically, produces other evils which are even greater.~ Bertrand Russell The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts -- wets, drys, and hypocrites.~ Florence Sabin Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorships.~ Andrei Sakharov If politicians don't respect the law, why should citizens respect politicians?~ Debra Saunders Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?~ Jean-Baptiste Say Can we truly expect those who aim to exploit us to be trusted to educate us?~ Eric Schaub Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!~ Sir Walter Scott Socialism, failing to work as it always does. This time in Venezuela. You talk about giving everybody something free and all of a sudden, there’s no food to eat. And who do you think is the richest person in Venezuela? The daughter of Hugo Chavez. Hello!~ Vin Scully Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print