Quotes About Hypocrisy

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Your mother and sister weren't on the radio telling us all to be brave. Look, I don't expect composers and poets to be heroes. I just don't like hypocrites.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

The tension between what is and what ought to be drives the growls against hypocrisy and the satirization of the self-satisfied and uptight.

Make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us.

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

The things that bother us most about others—our pet peeves—also point toward falsity in our own self. The speck that bothers me in the life of someone else is almost always the log in my own eye (Matthew 7:3).

If only non-hypocrites are going to fight for the environment then it will be an army of none. (60)

It was the strangest thing to me that Charlie Gaines was publishing all these Bible stories about love and kindness," said Klapper, "and he was the nastiest son of a bitch on the face of the earth.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

Hear the verbal protestations of all men: Nothing so certain as their religious tenets. Examine their lives: You will scarcely think that they repose the smallest confidence in them.

Humans are so Funny. So much moralising about words while at the same time thinking it perfectly "moral" to pepper-bomb cities full of people to protect them from violence.

It was the bitterest irony; I came to Washington to fight for "the family" and destroyed mine in the process.

Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.

J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield is a literary descendant of Huck Finn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers, but like Huck a youthful runaway from a world of adult hypocrisy, venality and, to use one of his own favourite words, phoniness. What particularly appals Holden is the eagerness of his peers to adopt that corrupt grownup behaviour.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

When Jesus Christ came upon the Earth, you killed Him. The son of your own God. And only after He was dead did you worship Him and start killing those who would not.

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

America is the greatest sin against God.

If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.

(The United States) is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.