Quotes About Hypocrisy

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

people only tend to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was okay to be murky to yourself, to know you weren't an angel, but other people had to be more cleanly divided into good and bad. P.357

But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was okay to be murky to yourself, to know you weren't an angel, but other people had to be more cleanly divided into good and bad.

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

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

Sincerity is the LUXURY allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

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

Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,And marching single in an endless file,Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

Those paid agents who preach others to take Covid vaccines will run away from it if they are asked to take it publicly.

(c)(p) NOTHING IS HOPEFUL ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM, WHITE SUPREMACY, VIGILANTISM,HYPOCRISY AND INJUSTICE IN AMERICA OR ANYPLACE ON THE PLANET. THESE EVILS WILL NOT GO AWAY ANYTIME SOON, AND THE POLITICIANS AND PEOPLES WHO PROMOTE THEM IN CONGRESS AND SPEAK ABOUT MURDERING THOSE THEY HATE WILL SEE THEIR JUST ENDS.

hypocrites,- they master the art of concealing their distaste for others, while they invent lies to keep their biases and corrupt prejudices alive.

The problem with Israel was her compartmentalized religion. She was oblivious to the actual moral nature of her many compromises, "desensitized to desecration", as long as she kept up the outward rites of Israelite religion.

Gospel doctrine – gospel culture = hypocrisy Gospel culture – gospel doctrine = fragility Gospel doctrine + gospel culture = power

They bragged about democracy and demonized countries that didn't have it, but they didn't really believe in democracy. They believed in hypocrisy. Their moral compass had spun out of control, from the very top down.

She had learned that evil had the fattest wallet and most chaste face of all.

A lot of people have done things in the name of Christianity and religion and faith in a not-so-nice way.

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment.