Ellen Page Quotes

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

President Trump's critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all.

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

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

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

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.

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?

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

I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

How dare you put yourself in that position where you are the moral judge?

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

The best men are not consistent in good--why should the worst men be consistent in evil?