Quotes About Hypocrisy

In America, they slag each other off at the press conference, then get in the ring and don't do anything.

Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.

I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

I'm a product of the '60s and the '70s - slightly rebellious back then in college, not so much in high school, when I got to college I think I was. And I think a lot of where I'm at right now is rooted in a lot of hypocrisy that I recognized back then that I never wanted to be personally.

You can't record an album called 'Meat Is Murder' and slip out for a burger.

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.

I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

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

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

How can they look in the eyes of a man and make a slave of him and then quote the Bible?

At the end of an especially angry letter to Reverend Twichell on the subject of political hypocrisy, he declared, "I have written you to-day, not to do you a service, but to do myself one. There was bile in me. I had to empty it. … I have used you as an equilibrium-restorer more than once in my time, & shall continue, I guess."31

I'm not sure what a good person is, exactly. On the one hand, it could be someone who always play by the rules. But someone can follow the rules and still be a real jerk, you know? In fact, some of the biggest idiots I know are people who follow the rules, usually because they make you feel like crap when you don't.

Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.

cada qual aprecia o odor de seu esterco: Nossos olhos não veem para trás. Cem vezes por dia zombanos de nós mesmos ao zombarmos de nossos vizinhos; os defeitos que detestamos em outrem são ainda mais visíveis em nós, e no entanto, os admiramos com maravilhosa imprudência sem perceber a contradição.

It would be hypocritical or naïve to believe that the law was made for all in the name of all; that it would be more prudent to recognise that it was made for the few and that it was brought to bear upon the others; that in principle it applies to all citizens, but that it is addressed principally to the most numerous and least enlightened classes.

En este mundo, si los cabrones volaran, nublarían el sol.

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.

human mind is sick with a disease called fear. Just like the description of the infected skin, the emotional body is full of wounds, and these wounds are infected with emotional poison. 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.

And to the revenge—on the hacks, the yes-men, the snitches, the hypocrites—that the novel declines to rise above.