Hypocrisy Quotes

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.

Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

My hypocrisy only goes so far.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

Be as you wish to seem.

It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.