Ethical Contradiction Quotes

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

Everyone knows what a hypocrite is. That's the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR.

People with the purest souls are capable of the greatest evils.

Did I think it was hypocritical that a professional league making hundreds of millions of dollars off beer sponsorships was telling me not to drink? Yes.

You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.

Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.' We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.

Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.

A person who issues that charge that someone adheres to the principle "do as I say, not as I do" has three options: produce an example; withdraw the charge; take the coward's way out and slink away silently.

...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Every morning, I shall concern myself anew about the boundary, Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No, And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid, Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion, To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

I've never seen anybody that lied as much as Ted Cruz. And he goes around saying he's a Christian.

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean.

The highest virtue is always against the law.

Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.

What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!