Agnes Repplier Quotes

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.

I used to pretend I was into speed garage when I hated it.

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?

I also think that there's a little peer pressure. They probably think that a majority of people their age think the same things and they want to be considered - I don't know what the word is - in, hip, whatever, with that bunch. I think time will take care of some of this as it is revealed that [Donald] Trump is not what they think.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

Tend to choose what is popular over what is right when they are in conflict. They desire to fit in both at church and outside of church; they care more about what people think of their actions (like church attendance and giving) than what God thinks of their hearts and lives.

Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.

Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think.

If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.