Quotes About Hypocrisy

the defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people

But we have arrived at a glistening, smug day when nobody much sins, and those that do are prone to call it something else.

Toda a maldade, mesquinhez e malícia eram silenciosamente deixadas fermentar debaixo de uma superfície que devia parecer sempre imaculadamente limpa e pura.

Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

Neighbor… was that the word for "whoring tramp" nowadays?

Jut then I'm stuck by a truth so real it might as well be a bolt of lightning: there is no greater evil than the one that cloaks itself in virtue.

Shit sprinkled with sugar was still shit.

For example, your man might think: I don't steal. Maybe on my taxes, everyone does that, but not in the way I heard so and so stole from his company. See? Those men for whose opinion he cares approve of embezzlement in one area, not the other. He uses them to maintain a claim on goodness while at the same time stealing.

Is it not strange that men are so keen to fight for religion and so unkeen to live according to its precepts?

Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

The best way ah knew tae strike a chord without compromising too much tae the sickening hypocrisy, perversely peddled as decency, which fills the room, is tae stick tae the clichés.

She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy.

There's something about a pious man such as he. He will cheerfully cut your throat if it suits him, but he will hesitate to endanger the welfare of your immaterial and problematical soul.

They want to be treated as equals, they say, and so they do, but, given a chance, they have no desire to treat others as equals.

Creo que Dios preferiría un ateo honesto y recto a un telepredicador que no hace más que repetir la palabra, Dios, Dios, Dios, y cuyos actos son horribles, horribles, horribles.