All 5 Uses of
hypocrisy
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He felt a sudden loathing: not because the words were hypocrisy, but because they were true; Philip meant them.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- Sure, I knew there was a lot of cowardice there, and envy and hypocrisy, but I thought that that was only the surface-now, when I've proved my case, when I've proved it so loudly!†
Chpt 1.9
- Is it necessary for me to point out that in your case it's nothing but hypocrisy?†
Chpt 2.4
- You're the man who would know that just as an idea unexpressed in physical action is contemptible hypocrisy, so is platonic love-and just as physical action unguided by an idea is a fool's self-fraud, so is sex when cut off from one's code of values.†
Chpt 2.4
- "You blank it out and cling to your hypocrisy of 'faith' in order to blank out the knowledge that the looters have a stranglehold upon you, which consists of your moral code-that the looters are the final and consistent practitioners of the morality you're half-obeying, half-evadingthat they practice it the only way it can be practiced: by turning the earth into a sacrificial furnace-that your morality forbids you to oppose them in the only way they can be opposed: by refusing to…†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(hypocrisy) pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them