#insincerity — Public Fediverse posts
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A quotation from Frederick Douglass
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #savagery #perspective #civilrights #cruelty #dishonesty #enslavement #fourthofjuly #holiday #hypocrisy #independence #injustice #insincerity #liberty #pretense #slavery
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Vice Pres. JD Vance: "I would love it if Democrats were willing to work with us on lowering housing prices."
Headline: "Trump cancels signing of landmark bipartisan bill aimed at lowering #housing costs."
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A quotation from Brennan Manning
At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently all we can do is pretend to believe we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo repentance and pseudo bliss.
Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8397…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #dishonesty #fabrication #facade #fakery #faking #falsehood #forgiveness #insincerity #pretense #pretension #repentance #sinner #spirituality
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Truly it is a sad thing for a people, as for a man, to fall into Scepticism, into dilettantism, insincerity; not to know Sincerity when they see it. For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal? The heart lying dead, the eye cannot see.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, LondonMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82852…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #disengagement #truth #dispassion #discernment #insincerity #reality #sincerity #skepticism #truth
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
A candor affected is a dagger concealed.
[ἐπιτήδευσις δὲ ἁπλότητος σκάλμη ἐστίν.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 15 (11.15) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2670…
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@QasimRashid
Their #insecurity is persistent and enormous.The #insecurity of their operations is #frequent and enormous.
Their #insincerity extends to all their lives.
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The cringing Train of Pow’r, survey;
What Creatures are so low as they!
With what obsequiousness they bend!
To what vile actions condescend!
Their Rise is on their Meanness built,
And Flatt’ry is their smallest Guilt.Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1741 ed.)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/78…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichardsalmanac #asskisssing #bowing #condescension #courtiers #favor #flattery #flunkies #guilt #hangerson #insincerity #lackeys #obsequiousness #power #praise #servility #subservience #sycophant #kowtowing #followers
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Adam Kinzinger: "Dear Christians who think Trump is the savior, here is his inspiring Easter message of forgiveness and resurrection:
Trump: 'Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, (etc.) back into our Country. Happy Easter to also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges (blah, blah, blah ...) I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very Happy Easter'!!!"
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A quotation from Orwell, George:
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/orwell-george/5188/#quote #quotes #quotation #clarity #communication #deceit #deception #dishonesty #insincerity #language #obfuscation #obscurity
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell (Politics and the English Language)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeOrwell #Communication #Deceit #Insincerity #Writing
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The only genuine things about DeSantis are his arrogance and his resemblance to plastic.
#RonDeSantis #DeSantis #sociopath #misanthrope #insincerity #plastic