Hypocrisy Quotes
One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.
Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don't, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease.
Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media).
The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words!
When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.
Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece ofspecious humbug designed to conceal it's desire for economic control ofthe Southern states.
For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.
Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has.
I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leprous.
Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.
All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she say.
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
They will call you immoral if you dare to describe their immorality
When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one.
Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.
There is a very fine line (almost transparent), between cordiality and hypocrisy--knowing to distinguish them is a gift of Gods.
We’re all looking for a bit of recognition, even if it’s the unconscious and hypocritical need for attention over the fact that we’re not publically seeking out attention.
Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.
A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.
We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.
Be more concerned about your life's impact on the lives of others than your image.
He was very religious he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.
When a hypocrite or a wicked leader is in power, anyone that becomes popular or stands out easily becomes a prey.
Cheating is pure hypocrisy. Our partner deserves better than that. If we don’t love someone, we should not be with them. That would also be hypocrisy.
There is a huge difference between living a Christian life and living a religious life
People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!
People forget how vulnerable they are despite their shirts and shoes and briefcases, how this hungry and cruel world could strip them, put them in the same position as my beggars.
All people like to be praised as it boosts their self-esteem, keeps them motivated and happy but it also pushes them into the abyss of sham, which is propelled by hypocrisy and sycophancy.
Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace.