Paul Watson Quotes

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

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.

A little hypocrisy is better than losing.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.

… he must deceive, misrepresent, leave false impressions … and trust to charm, loyalty and the result to make up for it…. A great man cannot be a good man.

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

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

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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

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

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

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.

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