Hypocrisy Quotes

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.

Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

My hypocrisy only goes so far.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

Be as you wish to seem.

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.

Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart's state.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.