Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 11

Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.

Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.

Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by conviction. It's stealing to take it and hypocrisy and you'll fall into a hole.

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the original of what they counterfeit, and which may indeed be said to have fallen from heaven, they produce so seldom, that it is cankered by the rust of sloth, and useless from non-application.