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Quotes About Hypocrisy

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.
~ Neko Case
It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.
~ Martin Luther
Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out...
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things.
~ Kenneth Eade, HOA Wire
I wasn't sure which I appreciated less—the insincere concern or the genuine indifference.
~ Arthur Graham, Editorial
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
~ Juvenal
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.
~ Mark Twain
The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.
~ Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
~ John Lennon
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
~ George Carlin
I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love
~ Charles Bukowski
People always make war when they say they love peace.
~ D. H. Lawrence
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.
~ Anne Stevenson
When you live in a glass house, buying curtains for the windows doesn't help.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
Religion is a veil that we often use to cover our ugliness.
~ Debasish Mridha
If you consume animal derived foods or use other animal derived products you are by no stretch of the imagination an "environmentalist." You are a rank hypocrite.
~ Will Hazlitt
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
~ Ada Leverson
Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry.
~ George Carlin
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
~ Noam Chomsky