{"quotes":[{"text":"I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, 'Die!' Paltry, prudent hypocrites!","author":"Osamu Dazai","tags":["death","dying","hypocrisy","hypocrites","people","society","suicide"],"id":1713,"author_id":"Osamu+Dazai"},{"text":"There was a young lady called Peaches,who simply loved animals to pieces.She ate pigs and sheep,and for cows she would weep,when baked in a sauce of rich greases.","author":"Mango Wodzak","tags":["animal-liberation","animal-rights","hypocrisy","limerick","vegan-limerick","vegan-poem","vegan-poetry","veganism"],"id":3209,"author_id":"Mango+Wodzak"},{"text":"Wasn't that what Jesus said: do what I do? He was here as an example for us to follow. Same with all prophets. Didn't the prophets tell us to be like them? That's what's wrong with Christianity. They make Jesus and the prophets into icons, take them off of earth, and put them in heaven to worship them, so they're no longer accessible. You've taken a reality and made it into a worthless idol. Christians talk about the idolatry of other religions, but when they no longer live principles and just worship the people who taught them, that's exactly what they're doing.","author":"Daniel Suelo","tags":["2012","american-christianity","asceticism","christian-nation","do-as-god-would-do","hypocrisy","idolatry","poverty"],"id":3302,"author_id":"Daniel+Suelo"},{"text":"He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["flexibility","hypocrisy","self-discipline"],"id":4468,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference between what is of God and what is not. Such a person can often point out false teachings or false teachers—he has an almost uncanny ability to perceivehypocrisy, shallowness, deceit, or phoniness.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["billy-graham","deception","false-teachers","hypocrisy"],"id":4688,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist, that he does not revenge an injury; and it is equally as good in a political sense, for there is no end to retaliation; each retaliates on the other, and calls it justice: but to love in proportion to the injury, if it could be done, would be to offer a premium for a crime. Besides, the word enemies is too vague and general to be used in a moral maxim, which ought always to be clear and defined, like a proverb. If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon us, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we put the best construction upon a thing that it will bear. But even this erroneous motive in him makes no motive for love on the other part; and to say that we can love voluntarily, and without a motive, is morally and physically impossible.Morality is injured by prescribing to it duties that, in the first place, are impossible to be performed, and if they could be would be productive of evil; or, as before said, be premiums for crime. The maxim of doing as we would be done unto does not include this strange doctrine of loving enemies; for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity.Those who preach this doctrine of loving their enemies, are in general the greatest persecutors, and they act consistently by so doing; for the doctrine is hypocritical, and it is natural that hypocrisy should act the reverse of what it preaches. For my own part, I disown the doctrine, and consider it as a feigned or fabulous morality; yet the man does not exist that can say I have persecuted him, or any man, or any set of men, either in the American Revolution, or in the French Revolution; or that I have, in any case, returned evil for evil.","author":"Thomas Paine","tags":["american-revolution","crime","dogma","enemies","feigned-morality","french-revolution","hypocrisy","injury","intention","justice","love","love-thy-enemy","loving","maxim","meaning","morality","motive","persecution","preach","premius","proverb","revenge","vague"],"id":4846,"author_id":"Thomas+Paine"},{"text":"The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above, generally, one has a difficult time reaching the compassionate side of love for others, the side that understands (or at least attempts to understand): 'I am aware that I am not so far from falling in the same way.' Humility seeks to understand, and sometimes even relate; and in result, the love lovingly, properly, effectively wills the removal of the destructive sins of another as from oneself.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["caring","caring-for-others","compassion","constructive-criticism","discernment","humility","hypocrisy","judgmental","love","pride","purity","self-destruction","self-righteousness","sin"],"id":5566,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.","author":"Moderata Fonte","tags":["crows","dignity","empowerment","envy","feminism","gender","hypocrisy","imagery","inequality","jealousy","men","merits","misogyny","suppression","ugliness","women","worth"],"id":5753,"author_id":"Moderata+Fonte"},{"text":"Lord, please protect me from Your people.","author":"Rosaria Champagne Butterfield","tags":["conformity","hypocrisy","legalism"],"id":7309,"author_id":"Rosaria+Champagne+Butterfield"},{"text":"When people don’t respect one another seldom is there honesty.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["betrayers","dishonest","disrespect","false-kindness","honesty","hypocrisy","lack-of-honor","lack-of-respect","liars","lost","political-games","revenge","strategies","tit-for-tat","ungodly-people"],"id":9149,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":534,"pages":54,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}