In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motives... of their actions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm? It is hypocrisy against the devil.... They that mean virtuously and yet do so, The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all... other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its b...ureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal a...bortions and unwanted children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even innocence itself has many a wile, And will not dare to trust itself with truth,... And love is taught hypocrisy from youth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplo...macy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »