Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 9

In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

It's the lack of humanity in the human psyche that haunts me. The hypocrisy. How people as a group can take something like tolerance and contort it into a new form of intolerance and conformity. The way humanity can justify any kind of evil.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!