Hypocrisy of Humans

Do you remember the story?

Driven by hunger, a fox tried to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine but was unable to, and termed them as "Sour Grapes"

The moral of the story was: "It is easy to despise what you cannot get."

We express bitterness or resentment against Reservation, Corruption, Dynasty Politics..... (endless list)  only when we don't get a chance to enjoy these privileges.

It is much harder to be fair than to seem fair. We always prefer appearances over reality. We like to tell others the 'right' thing to do, but we ourselves do not necessarily like to do the 'right'

We are hypocritical by nature (at least for the most part)


Here are a few quotes by different people on Hypocrisy :-

*Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

*He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. ~Thomas Fuller

*Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves. ~Author Unknown

*Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. ~William Shakespeare

*The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ~Jane Addams

*All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. ~Theodore M. Hesburgh

*Go put your creed into your deed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

*The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway. ~Augustus William

*Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ~Abraham Lincoln

*The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. ~Aesop, Fables

*The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. ~Benjamin Franklin

*It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ~Alfred Adler

*A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. ~J. Pierpoint Morgan

*People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. ~Elizabeth Drew

*Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~Colonel Potter