Quotes About Hypocrisy

Have you ever wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like? 1. They would all attend every service 2. They would all tithe 3. They would all work in the church 4. They would all go to hell

God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.

People have said it's hypocritical for me to call myself a feminist and make the kind of music we are making, because we signed to a major in the U.K., and that system objectifies women. Or people have complained that I don't dance. But I like the idea that I can stomp around the stage if I want.

In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

I don't know why, but if I was walking down the street, the same people who called me freak would probably ask for a picture. It's a real strange thing.

Oh, so slimy bastard shithead had been a lecturer?

In every aspect of Italian life, one of the key characteristics to get to grips with is that this is a nation at ease with the distance between ideal and real. They are beyond what we call hypocrisy. Quite simply they do not register the contradiction between rhetoric and behavior. It's an enviable mind-set.

The Vulgar sham of the pompous feast Where the heaviest purse is the highest priest The organised charity, scrimped and iced In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ."1 —John Boyle O'Reilly

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

A hypocrite is a person who—but who isn't? —DON MARQUIS I

He referred to Pope Paul III as "His Hellishness." Were not the pope and his associates at least members of the church? Yes, as much as spit, snot, pus, feces, urine, stench, scab, smallpox, ulcers, and syphilis are members of the body. Luther was never one to mince words.

The word freedom is hypocritical when spoken by the people who create the conditions that leave us sick and powerless. If our federal government and our commercial medicine make us unhealthy, they are making us unfree.

I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.

Deje palabras quien ama, que sin obras todas vuelan; porque palabras y plumas dicen que el viento las lleva.

Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.

The man who judges two equally brutal oppressors to be different, merely because they wear different faces, does not deserve freedom from oppression".–Pablo Sanchez, The Winter of Nations, 1851

a scene in which Bruno talks to his prostitute girlfriend about life in America (under the Nazis, Bruno says, they beat you and cursed you, but in America, "They do it ever so politely, and with a smile")

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

For the guys who would say, 'oh, your dad, this and that, you've got to the league or here because of him'... they're hypocrites.

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.