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Hypocrite Quotes

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.77, Seven Stories Press

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

"Christopher Hitchens: 'You have to choose your future regrets'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Tennessee Williams, John Patrick Shanley (2010). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.118, New Directions Publishing

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”