Oh, we have a home ~ We just need a house to put it in.” -10-year-old homeless girl
Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. ~ P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Mother is the name of God in the hearts and minds of children.” — unknown
The things that will destroy us are:
Politics without principle;
Pleasure without conscience;
Wealth without work;
Knowledge without character;
Business without morality;
Science without humanity;
and Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi
“A Communist, a Catholic, Protestant and/ or Hindu, each is secure in his belief; he has no fear because he clings to it. And when you begin to
investigate, or question, or reason with him he stops at a certain point and will not examine further, it is too dangerous, he feels security is being threatened;
then communication ceases. He may reason, think logically upto a certain point but is incapable of breaking through a different dimension all together; he is stuck in the groove and will not investigate anything else” — J. Krishnamurti
Hostility turned into paranoia — and paranoia became law. — Anon
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. — Dale Carnegie (1888–1955)
What is right is not always popular. What is popular is not always right.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. — Galileo
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Hypocrisy & Self-Righteousness ~
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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship,” Essays, 1841
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
Go put your creed into your deed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hypocrite: The man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. — Abraham Lincoln
’Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don’t never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks’ straight is what bothers me. ~Josh Billings
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners — let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. ~Aldous Huxley
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ~H.G. Wells
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. ~Rebecca West, The Strange Necessity, 1928
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. ~Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar for 1894
In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave — with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble. ~Geoffrey L. Rudd, The British Vegetarian, September/October 1962
They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. ~André Gide
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can’t bear to have anyone else one. ~Josh Billings
How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves. ~Thomas à Kempis
We are not hypocrites in our sleep. ~William Hazlitt
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. ~Otto von Bismarck
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom. ~Aldous Huxley
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ~George Bernard Shaw
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. ~James Russell Lowell
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. ~Alfred Adler
Live truth instead of professing it. ~Elbert Hubbard
Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts. ~Laurence Sterne, 1760
Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ~Elbert Hubbard
Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. ~J. Pierpoint Morgan
History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed. ~Louis Fischer
Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ~Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You
People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. ~Elizabeth Drew, The New Yorker, 16 February 1987
A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night. ~Thomas Macaulay
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. ~Bertrand Russell
Few love to hear the sins they love to act. ~William Shakespeare
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. ~Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
People will disapprove of you if you’re unhappy, or if you’re happy in The Wrong Way. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
Be what you would seem to be — or, if you’d like it put more simply — never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. ~J. Petit-Senn
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. ~Jacob M. Braude
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue. ~François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Maximes, 1678
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great deal of what passes for current Christianity consists in denouncing other people’s vices and faults. ~Henry H. Williams
How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few his precepts!
O! ’tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1757
Free energy will promulgate a forward leap in human progress akin to the discovery of fire. It will bring the dawn of an entirely new civilization — one based on freedom and abundance.” — Sterling D. Allan
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. — Henry Ford
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable. -Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
… They determine what we eat, what we watch, what we wear, where we work, and what we do. We are inescapably surrounded by their culture, iconography and ideology. And like the church and monarchy in other times, they posture as infallible and omnipotent, glorifying themselves in imposing buildings and elaborate displays. — Joel Bakan, The Corporation, The Corporation’s Rise to Dominance.
I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from men’s psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn’t interest in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life. — Dr. Ernesto “Che” Guevara, (May 14, 1928 — October 9, 1967), Alive as They Never Wanted You to Be!
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly. — Bertrand Russell
“The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.” — David Riesman
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. — Edmund Burke
If ignorance and passion are the forces of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. The modern separation of enlightenment and virtue, of thought and conscience. Of the intellectual aristocracy from the honest and common crowd is the greatest danger that can threaten liberty. — Henri Frederic Amiel (1821–1881)
When a man knows he is going to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. — Samuel Johnson
Let me know how any man thought — and wavered and resolved, succeeded and failed — I only want to know more of the life of man — of any man. — (Henry David Thoreau) March 1845 , The Journal, undated entry [1842–1844]
Law is dumb in the midst of arms. — Anon.