Quotes About Hypocrisy

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

Look twice at a two-faced man.

What has gone wrong with the men who are ruling I'd like to know who they think they are fooling They told us that torture was over and gone but everyone knows the same torture goes on

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefarious conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none.

Even though he grew up in churches, raised by church people, Waterhouse (as must be obvious by this point) never really understood their attitudes about sex. Why did they get so hung up on that one issue, when there were others like murder, war, poverty, and pestilence?

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.

For, you see, even if there is no right and wrong, you can find grounds to criticise another person by contrasting what he has espoused with what he has actually done. In this case, you are not making any judgment whatsoever as to the correctness of his views or the morality of his behaviour—you are merely pointing out that he has said one thing and done another. Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy.

Samuel L. Lewis] The hypocrisy of perfumed words only adds to the criminality of unwise acts.

After eavesdropping for a while, I began to realize that all my life I'd been a hypocrite. As a journalist I'd always supported the right to free speech, but been opposed to guns. However, by playing favorites with the amendments, it wasn't the founding fathers' vision of America I was fighting for—it was just my personal opinion.

Christianity does not work" is the message sent into the world when we fail to live a righteous life.

She said: "It's funny about 'passing.' We disapprove of it and at the same time condone it. It excites our contempt and yet we rather admire it. We shy away from it with an odd kind of revulsion, but we protect it.

If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street.

Perverted is any ordinary person caught in the act.

A man who wishes to profess at all times will come to ruin among so many who are not good.

The gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

for a man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil

Die Menschen sind undankbar, unbeständig, heuchlerisch, furchtsam und eigennützig.

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.