Quotes About Inauthenticity

In a wasteland the surface does not represent the actuality of what it is supposed to be representing, and people are living inauthentic lives. "I've never done a thing I wanted to in all my life. I've done as I was told." You know?

Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living—

Don't bother. You never mean it anyway, not really

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

The fake is a person who has rebuilt himself, with a view to occupying another social position than the one that would be natural to him.

False emotions broadcast thru the Land

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

It is hypocrisy alone   that leads men to be careless about themselves, [240] and haughtily to   despise others.

Much cry and no wool.

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

Would a musician feel flattered by the loud applause of an audience if he knew that they were nearly all deaf, and that, to conceal their infirmity, they set to work to clap vigorously as soon as ever they saw one or two persons applauding?

deceitful, inauthentic individual existence is the precursor to social totalitarianism.

Everything—that's far too much. It was specific things that fell apart, not everything; identifiable beliefs failed; particular actions were false and inauthentic.

I had been wading up to my neck in all this niceness for years. I woke up to it, went to sleep in it. I breathed niceness and slowly it was killing me.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

What's with you all, anyway? You jam a stick up your own arse then preen at how tall and straight your standing.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.

Authors use 'almost' to avoid stating an outright fact, as though there were something inauthentic, dishonest, unfinished, undecided or even unwholesome - some might say repulsive, tacky, snub-nosed, too direct - in qualifying anything as definitely a this or a that.

People in the outside world said something stupid with their every breath, and when they didn't talk their radios filled the gap with the copied voices of people singing the same songs over and over.

La flatterie n'émane jamais des grandes âmes, elle est l'apanage des petits esprits qui réussissent à se rapetisser encore pour mieux entrer dans la sphère vitale de la personne autour de laquelle ils gravitent. La flatterie sous-entend un intérêt. (p.239/317)