Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 4

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away; your individuality, your individual arises. To have a personality is hypocrisy. To be an individual is your birthright.

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

Dare to dream of your great success.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they are so often subconscious rather than deliberate ... The soul of the people is putrescent, and until that becomes regenerate and clean, no good work can be done.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.