Quotes About Hypocrisy

She raised a thick, ruddy brow at him. "You never heard of benign hypocrisy? I thought they teach you stuff like that when you go to minister school. Since you mention gassing away about morality. That's a minister's job, too, isn't it?

You never heard of benign hypocrisy? I thought they teach you stuff like that when you go to minister school. Since you mention gassing away about morality. That's a minister's job, too, isn't it?

Many people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.

Los esclavos, más que nadie, conocemos el arte de la hipocresía.

Don't you find it fascinating, boy-o, that the people who call on God the most believe in God the least?

Certain folks start playing Sindh Card despite having ravaged the life of the common Sindhi.

There are words, looks that can kill, no one notices, everybody is clinging to a facade, a complete distortion.

If we don't do better than those we accuse, we have no right to complain.

Hadn't you rather thank Heaven that she escaped what life had to offer her? And isn't it a blessing that society escaped a multiplication of her kind? Come, Julie, death may be the great equalizer; let's not give in to the hypocrisy that it is the great glorifier.

If a young woman from money marries an old man because of money and nothing else and makes love to him for hours and has this pious look on her face, she's called a German mother and a decent woman. If a young woman without money sleeps with a man with no money because he has smooth skin and she likes him, she's a whore and a bitch.

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

If in the revealing light of some moment of cataclysm you were to meet your double, not dressed in its worldly glad-rags, not armed with that buckler of excuses which conventional hypocrisy uses to cover our secret wishes, but in all its moral nakedness, showing its tendencies and urges, its pitiless cunning and its cowardice, are you certain that you would recognize it?

If he makes humanity God and yet cries out against God's inhumanity, it is clear who has really been accused.

There is a common worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough. This cheap Christianity . . . offends nobody, requires no sacrifice, costs nothing, and is worth nothing!

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

Poets, philosophers and seers have always concerned themselves with the idea of a true self, and the betrayal of the self has been a typical example of the unacceptable.

Perhaps it's just me, but I don't think Jesus' words were meant to be tied to a brick and chunked through your neighbor's window at midnight. Anytime you drop a picture of Christ in the mailbox while muttering a self-righteous "This'll teach 'em," something has gone terribly wrong.

Now personally I stand for the National Anthem. But that a man refusing to stand for the Star-Spangled Banner is a greater affront to your sense of American honor than a stacked roster of flag-waving hypocrites using Old Glory as a symbolic excuse to commit untold atrocities at home and abroad is probably a good sign that you've lost all reference.

We often come across certain directors who mention some of their own flops as their favourites. They will blame the viewers for not realising its merits. I think that is plain hypocrisy.

We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.

Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.