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Hypocrisy Quotes

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

Our primary foe is not an outside power, but our own infirmities, our timidity, our self-absorption, our duplicity, our shortsighted sentimentality.
Authors on Hypocrisy Quotes: William Hazlitt Friedrich Nietzsche Henry David Thoreau Robert Green Ingersoll Ralph Waldo Emerson Lord Byron Samuel Johnson Laurence Sterne William Shakespeare Francois de La Rochefoucauld Mignon McLaughlin Victor Hugo Honore de Balzac Oscar Wilde Hannah Arendt George Bernard Shaw Moliere Mahatma Gandhi Rajneesh Benjamin Disraeli Laozi Mark Twain Aldous Huxley Frederick William Robertson Charles Caleb Colton John Calvin Franz Grillparzer Jean de la Bruyere Frederick Douglass John Adams Garry Kasparov Lupe Fiasco George Carlin
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.
Malcolm X

We have yet to witness legitimate governance; all we've beheld is duplicity.
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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.
Oscar Wilde

Opting to live life authentically rather than succumbing to an inauthentic lifestyle desired by society.
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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.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Be sincere with yourself. The world is not genuine with you. The world cherishes duplicity. When you are sincere with yourself you discover the path to inner tranquillity.
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You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.
Shams Tabrizi

You have to put on a mask of duplicity for them to stay content with you.
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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.
John Adams

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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.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

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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.
Akbar

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Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
Joseph Goebbels

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My hypocrisy only goes so far.
Doc Holliday

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

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All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.
Julius Caesar

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

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

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

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It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Doc Holliday

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

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Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt

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

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

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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.
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

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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.
Emanuel Lasker

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Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates

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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.
Democritus

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

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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.
John Calvin

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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
James Russell Lowell

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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Stendhal

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

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Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
William Shakespeare

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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.
Blaise Pascal

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

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Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
Christine Keeler

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Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.
Georg Groddeck

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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.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.
Anton Chekhov

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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.
Hamza Yusuf

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Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
Warren W. Wiersbe

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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.
J. C. Ryle

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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.
David Price

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Making the world safe for hypocrisy.
Thomas Wolfe

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Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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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.
Frederick Douglass

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

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

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Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.
Wes Fesler