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"In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or power will keep a mistress and a few girlfriends on the side. Only in America, still suffering from its grotesque, hypocritical Puritan heritage, do we persist in attempting to deny and repeal a million years of basic primate biology."
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"Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts."
"He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave."
"Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging."
"Not everyone who condemns masturbation can masturbate."
"He who acquired all his wealth by 'being at the right place at the right time' is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his 'being at the wrong place at the wrong time.'"
"We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others, while we act as evils."
"Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that."
"Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments."
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"I hate and fear violence myself, have always avoided barroom brawls, and tho' I'm a bit of a gun-nut, and a member of the NRA, I never shoot at anything but beer cans and mule deer. (In season.) And seldom hit either, except by accident."
"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."
"Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp."
"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."
"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."
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