Anonymous Quotes

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

He [William Gladstone] made his conscience not his guide but his accomplice.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

One clings to principles for only as long as they are not put to the test. When that happens one throws them away as the peasant does his slippers.

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's by action dignified

Governor [Myron] Herrick is not a bad man; he is simply weak. He is one of those men who can do dishonest things honestly.

I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.

Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

My moral standing is lying down.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.