Quotes about Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. Votes: 6

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. Votes: 4

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy. Votes: 4

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. Votes: 4

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda. Votes: 4

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child. Votes: 4

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. Votes: 4

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. Votes: 4

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. Votes: 4

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! Votes: 4

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally. Votes: 4

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. Votes: 4

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings. Votes: 4

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. Votes: 4

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together. Votes: 3

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice . Votes: 3

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man - himself so true, That no false does he brew. Votes: 3

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent. Votes: 3

Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda. Votes: 3

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise! Votes: 3

Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not. Votes: 3

Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness. Votes: 3

I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words. Votes: 3

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move people to try to change the reality towards the values. Votes: 3

Live truth instead of professing it. Votes: 2

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. Votes: 2

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground. Votes: 2

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. Votes: 2

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. Votes: 2

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! Votes: 2

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins Votes: 2

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. Votes: 2

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy. Votes: 2

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. Votes: 2

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. Votes: 2

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. Votes: 2

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. Votes: 2

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite. Votes: 2

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. Votes: 2

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. Votes: 2

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. Votes: 2

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. Votes: 2

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power. Votes: 2

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. Votes: 2

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work. Votes: 2

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life. Votes: 2

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't. Votes: 2

If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy. Votes: 2

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul. Votes: 2

Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths. Votes: 2

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy. Votes: 2

I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe in an India of openness and straightforwardness, not of hypocrisy and double-dealing. I believe in an India where opportunities are available to all, and not just to a chosen few. Votes: 2

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only. Votes: 2

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see. Votes: 2

If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness. Votes: 2

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal. Votes: 2

I abhor hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence. Votes: 0

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation. Votes: 0

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Making the world safe for hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art. Votes: 0

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. Votes: 0

This is an example of hypocrisy Votes: 0

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen. Votes: 0

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. Votes: 0

My hypocrisy only goes so far. Votes: 0

I do not believe in hypocrisy. Votes: 0

I don't like hypocrisy-even in international relations. Votes: 0

When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy. Votes: 0

How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself. Votes: 0

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy Votes: 0

Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope. Votes: 0

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. Votes: 0

There is so much hypocrisy in sports. Votes: 0

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy. Votes: 0

It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds. Votes: 0

No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved. Votes: 0

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. Votes: 0

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste. Votes: 0

Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy. Votes: 0

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy. Votes: 0

When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle. Votes: 0

The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere Votes: 0

Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -! Votes: 0

My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you. Votes: 0

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality." Votes: 0

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality. Votes: 0

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. Votes: 0

Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die. Votes: 0

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long Votes: 0

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. Votes: 0

Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream. Votes: 0

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul. Votes: 0

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time... Votes: 0

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy Votes: 0

We don't live in a democracy; we live in a hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people. Votes: 0

two things do me in: one's chocolate cake, the other's hypocrisy. Votes: 0

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self. Votes: 0

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging. Votes: 0

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy. Votes: 0

They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash. Votes: 0

The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words. Votes: 0

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy. Votes: 0

(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. Votes: 0

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it. Votes: 0

You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. Votes: 0

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime. Votes: 0

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice. Votes: 0

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. Votes: 0

College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism. Votes: 0

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason. Votes: 0

Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy. Votes: 0

A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil. Votes: 0

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there. Votes: 0

And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives. Votes: 0

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history. Votes: 0

Every man, every art, has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with little and many lies. Votes: 0

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice. Votes: 0

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy. Votes: 0

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself. Votes: 0

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you. Votes: 0

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it. Votes: 0

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. Votes: 0

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today. Votes: 0

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest. Votes: 0

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success. Votes: 0

Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods. Votes: 0

Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence. Votes: 0

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst. Votes: 0

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy." Votes: 0

I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out! Votes: 0

When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises Votes: 0

There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere? Votes: 0

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. Votes: 0

It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself. Votes: 0

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays Votes: 0

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love. Votes: 0

Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit. Votes: 0

To condemn your sin in another is hypocrisy. Not to condemn is to reserve your right to sin. Votes: 0

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action. Votes: 0

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated. Votes: 0

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit. Votes: 0

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts. Votes: 0

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools. Votes: 0

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another. Votes: 0

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet. Votes: 0

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. Votes: 0

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy. Votes: 0

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt Votes: 0

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap. Votes: 0

Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better. Votes: 0

Prayer has never made you right, because right now our world of Islam is filled with abject hypocrisy in its religiosity. Votes: 0

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism. Votes: 0

Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media). Votes: 0

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. Votes: 0

I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs? Votes: 0

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer. Votes: 0

I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field. Votes: 0

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy. Votes: 0

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions. Votes: 0

After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere. Votes: 0

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish? Votes: 0

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. Votes: 0

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony. Votes: 0

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children Votes: 0

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children. Votes: 0

Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can't hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth. Votes: 0

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy. Votes: 0

While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist! Votes: 0

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics. Votes: 0

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself. Votes: 0

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite. Votes: 0

One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. Votes: 0

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen. Votes: 0

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth. Votes: 0

Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad. Votes: 0

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism. Votes: 0

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance. Votes: 0

The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face. Votes: 0

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow. Votes: 0

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy. Votes: 0

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own. Votes: 0

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate. Votes: 0

It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul. Votes: 0

Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry. Votes: 0

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove. Votes: 0

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense. Votes: 0

Compassion is not a sometime action; it's an every time passion! You can't be compassionate for less than 7 days in one week... That's first class hypocrisy! Votes: 0

[Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for women. Votes: 0

On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide. Votes: 0

As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power. Votes: 0

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before. Votes: 0

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer. Votes: 0

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself. Votes: 0

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy. Votes: 0

It's time to end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down. Votes: 0

What I don't understand is how a policy against outing trumps a policy of reporting. Whenever you're reporting on hypocrisy, you're kind of 'outing' something to begin with. Votes: 0

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred. Votes: 0

Satanism represents opposition to hypocrisy, every human being feels rage, every human being feels anger, and we feel it is natural to express that anger in a healthy way. Votes: 0

Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams. Votes: 0

It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we didn't know we had. Votes: 0

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy. Votes: 0

When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism. Votes: 0

The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us. Votes: 0

Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for. Votes: 0

I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil. Votes: 0

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own. Votes: 0

At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, hypocrisy, and callous indifference to those in need. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living. Votes: 0

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy. Votes: 0

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite. Votes: 0

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The world is looking, not for Christians who are perfect, but for Christians who are honest and who are willing to be honest with some of our contradictions and hypocrisy. Votes: 0

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you. Votes: 0

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure. Votes: 0

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity. Votes: 0

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving. Votes: 0

Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only. Votes: 0

You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it. Votes: 0

The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998. Votes: 0

In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put it mildly. Either there's democracy, or there isn't. Votes: 0

America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America. Votes: 0

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope. Votes: 0

The United States is now harbouring Luis Posada Carriles. His continued freedom mocks victims of terrorism everywhere. It also shows how heavily the 'war on terror' is overlaid with politics and hypocrisy. Votes: 0

An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy. Votes: 0

We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security. Votes: 0

I think it's such utter hypocrisy that so many people in our society were obviously all watching pornography and yet we treat these people [actors] like they're sub-human. I think it's just disgusting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery. Votes: 0

This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning. Votes: 0

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action? Votes: 0

I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you. Votes: 0

Washington always has a high level of hypocrisy, right, but I think the level of hypocrisy that has come out of the United States Senate on both sides of the aisle is amazing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept. Votes: 0

I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong. Votes: 0

Acting politely in front of someone black and/or gay and then making horrible claims about their intelligence or worth as human beings after they leave the room is not kindness - it's hypocrisy. Votes: 0

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk. Votes: 0

If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained? Votes: 0

This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor. Votes: 0

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.... Votes: 0

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States. Votes: 0

People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world. Votes: 0

While it's good that we maintain high standards for companies seeking to claim environmental leadership, I can't help but ponder the hypocrisy of it all: how much more we expect of companies than of ourselves. Votes: 0

he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other. Votes: 0

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment. Votes: 0