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Quotes About Hypocrisy

I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
~ A. N. Wilson
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson II
Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him
~ Fiorello H. La Guardia
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
~ Jean Rostand
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
~ Molly Ivins
In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
~ Hannah Arendt
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?
~ Imran Khan
I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.
~ Stephen Colbert
I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
~ Simon Cowell
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.
~ Thomas Adams
Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.
~ Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.
~ James Harvey Robinson
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!
~ Lord Byron
Marjani has never had a sip of alcohol in her life, but she stinks of beer like a Supreme Court justice in college when she comes back to check on me Saturday nights.
~ Will Leitch
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
~ Will Rogers
Socialisten zijn mensen met gewetensbezwaren over het geld dat andere mensen verdienen. Zodra ze zelf wat verdienen: niet alleen geen gewetensbezwaren, maar ook nog niet eens tevreden.
~ Willem Frederik Hermans
Al die beurzen, prijzen en stipendia,' zei hij, 'ben je werkelijk zo naïef te denken dat die bij begaafde studenten terechtkomen? Trouwens, wat is een begaafde student? Een begaafde kontenlikker, als je het mij vraagt.
~ Willem Frederik Hermans
If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To veil their vices from the sight of the good is the only resource of those who are not blind and know themselves to be vicious.' Thus was I confirmed in habits of hypocrisy; and these, for a time, worked only too effectually to my advantage.
~ William Beckford
If you find out she sidelined money to pay off a porn star, she's toast. Oh wait—that's ok now." "Only for men
~ William Bernhardt
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
~ William Blake