Pipe down Mr Indignation. We'll see what the viewers thought of your double standards, your indignation about me and the aplomb with which you become a lying plutocrat in your gentleman's club.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker mocks a critic for having double standards and accuses them of becoming corrupt while pretending to be morally superior.
- In plain terms
- Stop pretending to be moral when you are just as corrupt as others.
- What can you take from it?
- Watch for double standards in those who criticize others.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do we spot hypocrisy?
- Why does indignation matter?
Another view
The insult focuses on the person rather than addressing specific policy issues.
More from George Galloway
Not at all; not at all... as is obvious now; now they admit that. He was hated by political opponents as he suppressed all opposition political forces, but he …
Permalink to quote #24 Poor me, poor me, pour me another.
Permalink to quote #26 This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.
Permalink to quote #23
Related quotes
'The PMRC tried coming down on me on So Far, So Good... So What. Okay, Tipper Gore dropped acid in the 60s, and Albert Gore got caught smoking pot, but he used…
Dave MustaineDave Mustaine quote #42 What is his religion? An excuse for hating ME. What is his law? An excuse for hanging YOU. What is his morality? Gentility! an excuse for consuming without pro…
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw quote #86 What a jolly awakening there will be some few years hence, when the inevitable argument of experience will show us a nation contradicting itself through the vo…
Leonard H. CourtneyLeonard H. Courtney quote #2