Quotes About Hypocrisy

people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own.

People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

Those that name the name of Christ, but do not depart from iniquity, as that name binds them to do, name it in vain; their worship is vain

Note, Those who go about to mock God do but deceive themselves. Hypocrisy in religion is the greatest folly as well as wickedness, since the God we have to do with can easily see through all our disguises, and will certainly deal with us hereafter, not according to our professions, but our practices.

Note, It is common for those that are indulgent to their own sin to be severe against the sins of others.

There were always those among the Israelites that were not Israelites, and there are still hypocrites in the church, who make a deal of mischief, but will be shaken off at last.

Doctrina: Que hay muchos en el mundo que casi "lo son", pero al final son solo casi cristianos

Un hombre puede profesar religión y vivir en una forma de piedad en hipocresía. "Oíd esto, oh casa de Jacob, que son llamados por el nombre de Israel, y han salido de las aguas de Judá; que juran por el nombre del Señor, y hacen mención del Dios de Israel, pero no en la verdad, ni en la justicia".[138]

Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if they were ushered in to witness the scene.

And when they are told, 'Believe as other people have believed,' they say, 'Are we to believe just as fools believe?' Surely they are the fools, even though they do not realize it. 14 When they meet those who believe, they say, 'We believe.' But when they are alone with their evil leaders, they say, 'We are really with you; we were only mocking.' 15

The politician is an acrobat he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says.

A regime which is nominally liberal can be oppressive in reality. A regime which acknowledges its violence might have more genuine humanity.

It has always been easy to hide violence with declarations of peace.

A regime which is nominally liberal can be oppressive in reality. A regime which acknowledges its violence might have in it more genuine humanity.

It's hard to argue with Senator Rand Paul, who, during a lonely protest on the Senate floor, said, "If you were against President Obama's deficits, and now you're for the Republican deficits, isn't that the very definition of hypocrisy?"63 But, of course, he's a hypocrite too, having voted for the massive tax cut.

The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads of deception and self-deception. No longer vigorous enough to serve morality without doubt or weakening, not yet reckless enough to live wholly to egoism, it trembles now toward the one and now toward the other in the spider-web of hypocrisy, and, crippled by the curse of halfness, catches only miserable, stupid flies.

Parfümierte, wortreiche, handlungsarme Ideenromane, die deshalb von den Deutschen geliebt werden, weil dieser Mann [Thomas Mann] genauso ein Heuchler war wie sie selbst.

Cruelty in the name of kindliness is terrible; it would bind our feet and hands; it would kill us with hypocrisy. Cruelty based on power is better—that we can at least hate.

Life is larger than any principle. Morality is an idea, but life is what we live. How can we fit it into this idea without damaging it? More lives have been ruined in attempts to prevent sin than because of sin itself." "Should we live in sin then?" "No. But prohibiting it doesn't help at all. It creates hypocrisy and spiritual cripples." "So what should we do?" "I don't know.

Ljudima nije lako kad se otkrije njihova pokvarenost. - Ali ih to ne spre?ava da budu pokvareni. - A kakvi bi tek bili kad bi mogli biti sigurni da ?e njihova djelatnost ostati neotkrivena.

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

You look gorgeous, Elle, and you don't act like a gorgeous woman does." "I don't? How do I act?" "You act like an angel. But you fuck like a deomon. Don't you.