Sentences with phrase «great hypocrisy»

The great hypocrisy is that the single biggest factor in the carbon footprint of our cities isn't the amount of insulation in our walls, it's the zoning.

It's a strategy that has both eroded international sympathy and exposed the great hypocrisy behind America's nuclear nonproliferation initiatives.

«The key factor in this failure is the world's great hypocrisy,» President Rafael Correa said in a speech.

Democracy is a very great hypocrisy.

Perhaps the greatest hypocrisy is that the teachers unions, and their $ 500,000 a year presidents, embrace the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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Ambrose's description of the matter as a «political issue» has it about right — not only in terms of potential hypocrisy, but as a possible suggestion of personal extravagance, the great sin of political life.

You however don't see your own hypocrisy in greater depth when you say that the bible was deliberately written to be sacred and holy, without ANY sourcing and you take the word of people who lived a really long time ago who also can not provide you with anything more than «eye - witness accounts» which have undoubtedly been changed, tweaked or even just falsly made up in order to cement their point.

Comedy, especially comedy that offends social hypocrisy, is perhaps the greatest method of speaking truth to power.

It's great to see fundamentalist showing the world their lack of discipline and hypocrisy.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

This is frankly not the time to be defensive about the church and blind to its many flaws; people in important positions in the church have hurt a great many people and the church itself with their hypocrisies and crimes.

I'm arguing that there's a great deal of hypocrisy and elitism in this debate, and that the world's a better place when people are honest and authentic.

Rather, let us say that if an earnest Christian can write what the one quoted above did, it is solely because he shares the common presupposition of our times: that poverty is the great calamity and therefore an obstacle to the spiritual life; that the real problem is how to induce the rich to aid the poor; and that otherwise preaching the gospel is hypocrisy.

So by stating that there must be a Christian presence in government you're kinda unconsciously outlining the mind controlling hypocrisy you're indoctrinated into, of early Byzantine cultists who subverted a good religion and plugged 2000 years of pagan rituals into a philosophy that was about love and created the most hypocritical, torturous, murderous, blasphemous, demonic and satanic era of human history, that would have made the devil himself, if he happens to be real, enthralled and delighted at the inhuman acts perpetrated by men who's skill lay only in great fornication and great defilements, that can only be possessed by those that truly revel in the pain and the blood of the innocent.

By the way, there are plenty of great songs about suffering, our own imperfect nature and the hypocrisy that many of us display in our daily lives.

A great summary of the sickness and hypocrisy of «Anti-War» Liberalism.

Of course, the acceptance of the belief that we should act for the common good led to a great deal of self - deception and hypocrisy.

None of us is perfect, and to pass judgement on him because he makes a great living is hypocrisy at its best.

I believe that the humility that God wants us to have comes from, not so much looking at the dark side of ourselves, analyzing all we think and do, or even recognizing our hypocrisy [you seem to obcess on that]; that can become a grind and lead us down the road of great depression.

I'm not even going to mention the large percentage of American Catholics who violate this edict by using contraception on a regular basis... or the hypocrisy of Catholic hierarchy who went to great lengths to cover - up some very un-Godly behavior by a scary number of its priests

I strongly disagree with the political stances on most issues with the Republicans being targeted here, and I realize there's a great deal of moral hypocrisy within a Republican Party that pretends to care about God, but blames poor people for their poverty.

The Bible is a great book of morals, but it was compiled by imperfect men so it also contains errors, contradictions, hypocrisy and nonsense.

By insisting on the moral value of increasing natural and social complexity, he overlooks a historical trend which has been identified by many, most notably Reinhold Niebuhr: the more organized and highly structured the group or state, the greater is its hypocrisy and abuse» of power.

Your example of Jesus» perspective on the tower in Siloam is a curious one, seeing as Jesus was responding to the hypocrisy of those who assumed that disasters happen to people who are «greater sinners» than they.

Sports Betting — New Jersey Governor Chris Christie continues to display a great deal of hypocrisy by now rejecting a bill that would have helped the state's efforts for legalized sports wagering, something he once fought for.

Sports Betting - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie continues to display a great deal of hypocrisy by now rejecting a bill that would have helped the state's efforts for legalized sports wagering, something he once...

Ah, sweet hypocrisy... is it any surprise that Alaska, for instance, is one of the greatest net recipients of tax money per capita in the country, and also one of the most reliably Republican?

«First we think it's the greatest act of hypocrisy that they want to stand up and say they're not in favor of immigration.

«This, like so many of those conservative doctrines, is the greatest form of hypocrisy.

Set aside for a moment the ludicrous hypocrisy of a Tory Brexiteer government running a facsimile of the Remain campaign's economic arguments about leaving a union, the threat that will be articulated is not only real but potentially greater than in 2014.

With the scandal's «heady mix of sex and hypocrisy,» he said, «you might expect us to spend a great portion of our program tonight luxuriously bathing in its sweet Schadenfreude.»

But the charm of this traditional narrative — which goes to great lengths to pretend it's self - aware — depends at least in part on its hypocrisy.

Both films share a pre-occupation with the hypocrisies of bourgeois Parisian life, (and there is a smart visual nod to Haneke's film with its extended final shot), but Szumowska has a greater handle on the subtleties and nuances of character, and together with Binoche they create a memorable study of a middle - aged woman coming to terms with the changing landscape of her life as she enters middle age.

However, for those familiar with the great painter's works, as well as the prevailing spirit of the Era of Enlightenment and the style of the other great artists of various mediums who used their craft to comment on the blights of the world around them, Goya's Ghosts speaks on a level that transcends just the story of two men looking after the welfare of a young, unfortunate woman caught up in the hysteria of power that marked the end of the Spanish Inquisition's stranglehold of power, as well as the outrageous hypocrisy in their manner of governance.

Summary: When aspiring author Nick Carraway becomes captivated by the extravagant lifestyle of his new neighbour, playboy millionaire Jay Gatsby and his circle of high society friends, his experiences inspire him to write his own story of; power, greed, betrayal, hypocrisy, sacrifice and social hierarchy wrapped in the great American dream.

David Foster Wallace said, «The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.»

The signatories took «the greatest exception to Brian Sewell's writing», and concluded that «the capital deserves better than Sewell's dire mix of sexual and class hypocrisy, intellectual posturing and artistic prejudice».

And it also has a great deal to do with America - with the amorality of the movie industry, with consumerism, with hypocrisy, double standards and repression.

This has been a great victory for humane humans but only a first step in the battle to cure Japan's egotistical hypocrisy and lying.

I can't decide if it's hypocrisy or stupidity that drives the global climate change agenda when it comes to viewing things in terms of sustainability, but I do know that the current frat party approach to renewables poses a greater short and long term threat to sustainability than global climate change.

«No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.»

I think that Mann's hypocrisy has great relevance.

Replete with great graphics and much humor, Steve Goreham reveals the mountain of failed eco-predictions, rank green hypocrisies and outright fraud that currently masquerades in the guise of modern environmentalism and «climate science»... The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism is an easy - to - read, easy - to - understand expose of all the key facts behind the dirty «green» politics of the greatest pseudo-science racket of our age.»

That they at the same time expect to be given great sums of money by those they condemn is a level of hypocrisy that only works on ethically challenged victims of con - artists.

Indeed — this RICO business, much less the so - called «scientist» letter is hypocrisy of the greatest degree.

In Australia we have an expression for such tactics; they are flat - track bullies and LM has done a great job of exposing them; but, so far, the media has been a willing accomplice to their hypocrisy.

The Bitcoin community may find the hypocrisy of an anti-Bitcoin regulator profiting from Bitcoin too great.