Quotes About Hypocrisy

Leaning against an oak tree for shade, I can't help but confront my own ignorance regarding these issues. I remember the grape boycott, but little else. It was not my struggle. That was my privilege. Now I see it differently. Acts of injustice undermine all of us. The privacy of hypocrisy is corrosive.

My aunts did not share in the housework, but they contributed greatly to all of the village gossip. They had fake faces, showing Mama kindness and calling her ate, "big sister," but once they were alone, I heard the snide remarks they shot like an arrow in her direction. They had no shame. On that day of our deepest sorrow, the two of them snorted, elbowing each other while Mama writhed in agony on the floor

Someone may be able to speak beautifully about compassion, wisdom, or nonself, but this doesn't necessarily help others. And the speaker may still have a big self or treat others badly. His eloquent speech may be only empty words. We can get tired of all these words, even the word "Buddha.

Think about our workplaces, for example. Think of the privileges we may retain for ourselves while we apply other standards to those who work for us

Los gatos son sin duda las criaturas más egoístas, ingratas e hipócritas de este u otros mundos. Engendrados de una nefasta alianza entre Lilit y Satanás...

I'm not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it's funny that the people that condemn the adult industry the most are the ones consuming the product the most.

For me, the key is I always have to be the same person. If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'

It is always a bit hypocritical when a defender who spends the whole game kicking you complains of being kicked.

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.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

Hypocrites are more enraging than extremists, as every campaign operative knows.

Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. (James 1:26)

he was trying to pave his way to heaven by plastering over his sins with the putty of religious zeal.

You'd better clean up your own backyard before you start talkin' trash." Because I would bet money—and I'm not a betting person—that each one of those women has something in their closets they'd rather not air. Everybody does. Especially those who are always eager to cast the first stone.

From the outside everything looks fine," the dentist said, "but it's rotten to the core.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.

I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words.

As everyone knows, people revert to virtuous ways when they are too old for their virtue to be endangered. The confessor was not deceived by any of these women who repented out of impotence or malice and were inclined to criticize in others the very aberrations of which they themselves had formerly been guilty.

When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!