Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something

The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony, the adulterer to celebrate adultery, than for someone to preach the right thing if he himself occasionally does the wrong thing. Better to let your failings define you and be happy about it, than to let your ideals define you but then fall short of them, for that opens you up to the charge of hypocrisy.

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

We're all hypocrites. We all say one thing and do another. But why don't we try to do what we say more than what we don't?

Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard and judging them by their worst actions.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing something they've done themselves.

Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.

Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.

My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

I have nothing else to say other than I wasn't corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn't greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.