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Quotes About Hypocrisy

Self-righteousness is the most shameless slut of all.
~ Mason Cooley
Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.
~ Mason Cooley
Many have passed the rocks of gross sins - who have suffered shipwreck upon the sands of self-righteousness.
~ Unknown
Before you tell someone how to get from point A to point B. Before you advise someone to get their house clean. Before you educate someone on how to live their life..., you better first know where you fall in the alphabet, that your own house is in order, and you are living right. Hypocrisy is never fashionable or a good look.
~ Unknown
People tell me how to live when they ain't even living right.
~ Unknown
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
~ Leigh Hunt
We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.
~ Unknown
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
~ George Bernard Shaw
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
~ Victoria Woodhull
I am merely noting that the creation of native prostitutes to service foreign privates is an inevitable outcome of a war of occupation, one of those nasty little side effects of defending freedom that all the wives, sisters, girlfriends, mothers, pastors, and politicians in Smallville, USA, pretend to ignore behind waxed and buffed walls of teeth as they welcome their soldiers home, ready to treat any unmentionable afflictions with the penicillin of American goodness.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Popes, cardinals, bishops, priests, and monks carrying on with women, girls, boys, and each other? Hardly ever discussed! Not that there was anything wrong with carrying on— it's hypocrisy that stinks, not sex. But the Church torturing, murdering, crusading against, or infecting with disease millions of people in the name of our Lord the Savior, from Arabia to the Americas? Acknowledged with useless, pious regret, if even that.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
He was attired like an asshole, which is to say that he wore the long black tails, gray slacks, and top hat of an English gentleman or a nineteenth-century European nobleman, their refined manners and exquisite fashions suiting them perfectly for overseeing genocidal empires that looted nonwhite countries, enslaving and/or massacring their inhabitants, and sanctifying the results with the name "civilization.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.' 'What is regret?' 'To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.' 'What is sorrow?' 'To long for the past.' 'What is the highest pleasure?' 'To hear a good story.
~ Vikram Chandra
Some people will slap you on the back behind your face and then slap you in the face behind your back.
~ Unknown
Why is the gospel discredited when a believer steals from his employer? And when a pastor commits adultery, what does it have anything to do with the truth concerning Jesus Christ?
~ Unknown
I do not sit with deceitful men, nor do I consort with hypocrites; I abhor the assembly of evildoers and refuse to sit with the wicked. (Psalm 26:4-5)
~ Unknown
The church has long been a comfortable place for unbelievers due to its weak preaching and spineless policies.
~ Unknown
Seems that folks who try to hide it the most end up judging the most. Guess they figure if they judge other people's garbage it makes their own not quite so dirty.
~ Unknown
I'm realizing human nature is a very difficult thing to escape. We can be self-righteous, or realize much of what we hate in others is what we have inside ourselves.
~ Unknown
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.
~ Virginia Woolf
The political strategy of victimizing prostitutes also serves this purpose of branding male desire and confining it in its own squalor. He can pay to come if he wants, but he'll have to rub shoulders with filth, shame, and poverty. The prostitution transaction -- "I pay you, you satisfy me" -- is the basis of the heterosexual contract. It is hypocritical to pretend, as we do, that this transaction is foreign to our culture.
~ Virginie Despentes
Dizem com frequência que a pornografia aumenta o número de estupros. Hipócrita e absurdo. Como se a agressão sexual fosse uma invenção recente, e como se tivesse sido introduzida em nossos espíritos através dos filmes.
~ Virginie Despentes
Después de unos años de buena, leal y sincera investigación he acabado llegando a esta conclusión: la feminidad es una puta hipocresía. El arte de ser servil.
~ Virginie Despentes
Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for the exploited, for the poor.
~ Vladimir Lenin