Quotes About Hypocrisy

I have spoken to many parents who feared they were producing little hypocrites who were proud and self-righteous. Hypocrisy and self-righteousness is the result of giving children a keepable law and telling them to be good. To the extent they are successful, they become like the Pharisees....The genius of Phariseeism was that it reduced the law to a keepable standard of externals that any self-disciplined person could do. In their pride and self-righteousness, they rejected Christ.

Pir Sain was a symbol of munafiqat. I was a soldier. This was a jehad.

For Sehra who broke the silence of hypocrisy, that Allah consistently says he hates; in the dictionary meaning of Satan out of 3 – 1 is hypocrisy – So – while many misguided people around the world will condemn you – Allah will love you for following his command. I am very proud of you and can assure you that from here on you will find yourself transformed for a greater purpose. My love and prayers.

Growing up, I always saw the hypocrisy of the Catholic church. The history speaks for itself, and I grew incredibly frustrated and angry. I essentially just put that into my words.

One of the jobs of comedy is to expose hypocrisy. When you look at countries like Iran or North Korea that don't have freedom of speech, we who do should push it as far as we need to.

I used to pretend I was into speed garage when I hated it.

This celebrity culture that hypnotizes people into thinking a person is literally not real because you see them on television is a spell the watcher him- or herself must break.

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

A French Republican is a Republican who beats up on conservatives and is constantly praising the Democrats and contributing to the massive spending in this country while they go home and pretend otherwise.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.

How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.