Quotes About Hypocrisy

Appearances and manners often cloak a black soul.

Over the years of the Cultural Revolution, I was to witness people being attacked for saying thank you too often, which was branded as bourgeois hypocrisy; courtesy was on the brink of extinction.

Like many Chinese, I was incapable of rational thinking in those days. We were so cowed and contorted by fear and indoctrination that to deviate from the path laid down by Mao would have been inconceivable. Besides, we had been overwhelmed by deceptive rhetoric, disinformation, and hypocrisy, which made it virtually impossible to see through the situation and to form an intelligent judgment.

Even though I might tear the mask off of your hypocrisy, you had a thousand layers of masks, and one after another a new one would appear; but my mask was only a single ply, and under that there remained not even a layer of ordinary face.

Why do you observe the splinter in your brother's eye and never notice the plank in your own?

Too bad evil people sometimes live in peaceful towns

In my experience,...the humans who talk most loudly about freedom are the ones who think it's so good that nobody else should have any of it.

O casamento burguês é, na realidade, um sistema de esposas em comum, portanto, quando muito, poder-se-ia censurar aos comunistas por desejarem introduzir um sistema abertamente legalizado de amor livre, em substituição a um hipocritamente escondido.

In Teddy's experience people who claimed to be one thing were generally the opposite

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Beware the man who has two faces and two hearts.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.