Quotes About Hypocrisy

I think most people, including me, like to read gossipy things about others: revealing things that I love to read but I don't really want known about me.

There are many people who say all the right things and never do any of the right things.

We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.

To lie is to degrade and besmirch oneself," we say, and yet all civilized life becomes one huge lie. We accustom ourselves and our children to hypocrisy, to the practice of a double-faced morality. And since the brain is ill at ease among lies, we cheat ourselves with sophistry. Hypocrisy and sophistry become the second nature of the civilized man. But a society cannot live thus; it must return to truth or cease to exist.

The fact that you have never betrayed my teachings, and the fact that you swear never to betray them: this is to betray them already.

Estamos tan ciegos que, mientras el mundo nos observa y da muestras de desaprobación, no somos capaces de visualizar la gran brecha existente entre nuestras palabras y nuestro proceder en la vida cotidiana.

Por qué? No puedes tener la paz verdadera del reino de Cristo con mentiras o fingimientos.

Why is it that so many Christians make such lousy human beings?

Most Christians talk about prayer but don't pray.

To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.

Superficial.ism is a religion. It's simply hypocrisy...

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

The court is resplendent; Yet the fields are overgrown. The granaries are empty; Yet some wear elegant clothes; Fine swords dangle at their sides; They are stuffed with food and drink; And possess wealth in gross abundance. This is known as taking pride in robbery. Far is this from the Way!

All successful marriages are based on some necessary hypocrisies. It's only the unsuccessful ones where people always tell the truth to each other. The

It's your hypocrisy that's offensive, not your brutality. You're the worst kind of fascists. The kind that think they're liberals.

It's funny: one starts off thinking one is shrinkingly sensitive & intelligent & always one down & all the rest of it: then at thirty one finds one is a great clumping brute, incapable of appreciating anything finer than a kiss or a kick, roaring our one's hypocrisies at the top of one's voice, thick skinned as a rhino. At least I do.

felt personally betrayed that the man who had sung "Imagine no possessions" now had accumulated costly real estate and herds of prize cattle.

The new law requires you to keep perpetual sabbath, and you, because you are idle for one day, suppose you are pious, not

More Christian blood has been shed by Christians than by heathens and Mohammedans.

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.