Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 7

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

When you put party over principles, you can't avoid tripping over your own hypocrisy and contradictions eventually. The GOP establishment refused to stand up to Trump during the primary because they wanted his voters in order to beat Hillary Clinton. Then he won the primary, and then the general, and the GOP both times decided it was better to cling to their grasp at power, to cling to Trump and all he stands for, a decision that should destroy the party or drag it down for a generation.

it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

When you have children your own hypocrisy becomes more apparent because you're telling them how to behave, and you're not behaving like that yourself. So it obliges one to really go in and try to look at why there is a huge gulf between how one knows one wants to behave and how one actually does behave.

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.

The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.

Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.