“ Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change. ”
- Frank Lloyd Wright- Copy
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“ Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Ps. 120: 2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it… ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress — these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear. ”
- Mary McCarthy- Copy
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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. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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