Top Sham Quotes
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.
William Morris
This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.
Marion Barry
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
David Brock
All Sham Quotes
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer 
76% of people like this quote
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray 
61% of people like this quote
If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.
William Morris 
55% of people like this quote
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
David Brock 
54% of people like this quote
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
Joseph Conrad 
53% of people like this quote
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Desmond Tutu 
52% of people like this quote
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
John Charles Polanyi 
50% of people like this quote
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
Jesse Ventura 
48% of people like this quote
Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.
Rob Corddry 
47% of people like this quote

Rob Corddry
John Charles Polanyi
Joseph Pulitzer
William Makepeace Thackeray
Marion Barry
Nick Mancuso
William Morris
Jesse Ventura
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