Quotes About Hypocrisy

Así es la gente! Todos son iguales: conocen de antemano todos los aspectos dañinos de una acción, ayudan, aconsejan e incluso la aprueban, al ver que no hay otro remedio, pero luego se lavan las manos y dan la espalda, con indignación, a quien tuvo el valor de cargar con toda responsabilidad. ¡Todos son así, hasta los más bondadosos, hasta los más inteligentes...!

isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? the potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? the drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness?

La mayoría de la gente se mueve en un círculo idílico entre el hogar y el trabajo —dijo Jakub—. Viven en un territorio seguro fuera del bien y del mal. La visión de un hombre que asesina les horroriza sinceramente. Pero basta con que les saquen de ese territorio tranquilo para que se conviertan en asesinos sin darse cuenta.

Se há coisa que sempre me enojou profundamente no homem é realmente ver como a sua crueldade, a sua baixeza e a sua estupidez arranjam maneira de se disfarçar sob a máscara do lirismo.

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing something they've done themselves.

Hollywood had revealed itself in countless ways as one of the most hypocritical capitalist enclaves in the world, with a preening surface attitude advocating progressivism, equality, inclusivity and diversity—except not when it came down to inclusivity and diversity of political thought and opinion and language.

the sweet and smiley and sexually unthreatening elf with liberal values and a positive attitude is supposed to transform everyone into noble gay-loving protectors—again, as long as the gay in question toes the party line, isn't messy or too sexual, negative or angry and offers no contradictions and is certainly not conservative or Christian.

I poked fun at rich friends growling about the unfairness of the Electoral College over a dinner at Spago that cost thousands of dollars, and took Meryl Streep to task for her outraged anti-Trump speech at the Golden Globes the same week she'd put her Greenwich Village townhouse on the market for thirty million dollars.

Church!" she cried. "Why would I ever go there? I was already feeling terrible about myself. They'd just make me feel worse.

Looking around, Ishmael noted that the humans in control here didn't seem to care. Why is their religious fervor acceptable, while ours is a matter of scorn?

Poritrin nobles professed to follow gentle, bucolic Navachristianity, but their core beliefs did not extend to their daily lives. They had their festivals, and embraced religious trappings, but the Poritrin upper classes did little to demonstrate their true faith.

Savant, doesn't it strike you as somewhat…hypocritical that we fight to keep humans free from the domination of machines, while at the same time some of our own League Worlds use slaves?

You sound as fierce against sin as Harsnet.' He grinned. 'Only sins I don't feel drawn to myself,' he said with a flash of his old humour. ' 'Tis always easy to condemn those.

I always say there's nothing wrong with a bit of vice as long as it's not taken to the extreme. Give me someone with a touch of vice over someone with an excess of sanctimonious hypocrisy any day.

Sloan wondered if newspapers weren't a little hypocritical, demanding one standard for others and another for themselves; he doubted that reporters had any idea of the anguish they could inflict with only one sentence

The deceased was a well-known scumbucket and they don't usually have the decency to kill themselves. Usually someone else does the honor.

At heart Chaz Perrone was irrefutably a cheat and a maggot, but he had always shunned violence as dutifully as a Quaker elder. Nobody who knew him, including his few friends, would have imagined him capable of homicide. Chaz himself was somewhat amazed that he'd actually gone through with it.

Tom Paine wrote in The Age of Reason: Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

This disgust with mendacity is disgust with yourself.

she had wondered if any of his Christianity was true. Had it all been a cover? A way to network and look honest? Or had he truly loved Jesus, but found ways to compartmentalize the sin in his life as so many others did?

It struck Magda as ironic that those who professed to want peace the most were quickest to use bloodshed to try to get their way.

I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting Forward, brave comrades! you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!

Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look. The Stealer of Souls, he said in the faraway voice of one whose ears aren't hearing what his mouth is saying, "Defeater of Empires, Swallower of Oceans, Thief of Years, The Ultimate Reality, Harvester of Mankind, the— ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. I CAN SEE MYSELF IN.