Quotes About Sham

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

Jurisprudential law is sham law: to ascribe stability to this creature of the imagination, is to ascribe stability to a shadow.

Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

They were good friends, weren't they? The best of friends. She ought to be able to walk into his room and ask him the reason for his absence this evening—and the reason for his absence from her bed. But she couldn't, because it was all a sham, their friendship, at least on her part, a disguise for her true feelings, an awful solace for not being his one and only. A thing without wings.

The rest of the world sees through the sham, when we pour billions in "foreign aid," which is really military assistance, into underdeveloped countries where the citizens continue to starve – as do millions of our own.

All genuine epiphanies seem to follow this model: their defining quality is the relinquishment of delusion. The initial fear is that one has lost something. A cherished self-conception must be given up, and one feels diminished by it. This is mistaken, however. A person discovers that he has been made stronger by the jettisoning of this sham and disadvantageous baggage. In fact, he has become more "himself," by aligning his self-concept more closely with fact.

I'm a fake intellectual.

He has the sense that up to this moment his life has been a sham; he yearns to live properly, to reflect deeply and ruminate. And it is among his books he hopes to find the solution to the eternal problem of "life and death".

Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

I wondered at what point in space the silly, sham blue of the sky turned black.

If you want the poetry and sham of romantic love, you are mistaken in me, but what you can have is loyalty and understanding. Speak to me. Tell me your heart.

And fancy means phony.

I've seen the other side. I know your religion is just a sham. Lici is innocent. You're the real demons.

Big Hat No Cattle

The art of making much show with little substance.

Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.

The silence encompassing the feeling so juvenile, veiling everything but a sham smile.

Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play.

what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.

Your skin is a waste of space because there's no heart inside of you

If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.

Affected simplicity is refined imposture.

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.