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Quotes About Hypocrisy

It made me a bit sad, truth be to tell it, to watch them hundreds of white folks crying for the Negro, for there weren't hardly ever any Negroes present at most of them gatherings, and them that was there was doodied up and quiet as a mouse. It seemed to me the whole business of the Negro's life out there weren't no different than it was out west, to my mind. It was like a big, long lynching. Everybody got to make a speech about the Negro but the Negro.
~ James McBride
Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
~ William Blum
In the United States of America, we are so liberal-minded on so many different aspects, but for some reason there's always going to be this weird connection with nudity being a bad thing. Americans can be so prude sometimes.
~ Erin Wasson
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
~ Don Herold
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
~ Jean Kerr
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.
~ F.Scott Fitzgerlad
Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!
~ Denise Levertov
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!
~ Émile Zola
I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women.
~ Emilio Estevez
Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.
~ Honore de Balzac
The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.
~ James Huneker
If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!
~ James Merrick
An evangelical minister has had to resign after pictures surfaced showing him in a hot tub with two women. He claimed it was just a baptism gone terribly wrong.
~ Jay Leno
His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
~ Oscar Wilde
Hypocrisy/hi pakrise/ noun1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Also the fact that he's a guy. A girl screws around like Lotto and she's like diseased. Untouchable. But a guy can stick it to a million places and everyone just thinks he's doing what boys do.
~ Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye...
~ Angela Carter
She's no angel.He's no saint.
~ Elvis Costello
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
~ Captain Beefheart
To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.
~ Mike White
One of the more powerful commentaries on America was the arch question Samuel Johnson posed in 1777: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
~ Thomas E. Ricks