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Quotes About Hypocrisy

Absolute honesty is essential in one's search for God (Truth). The subtleties of the Path are finer than a hair. The least hypocrisy becomes a wave that washes one off the Path. It is your false self that keeps you away from your true Self by every trick it knows. In the guise of honesty this self even deceives itself. For instance your self claims, I love Baba. The fact is, if you really loved Baba you would not be your false self making the self-asserting statement!
~ Meher Baba
Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The city fathers discredited themselves with their silly exercise in extreme social rectitude.
~ Unknown
Humanism without the root of love will be a cruel world see worldly hypocrisy.
~ Unknown
Irony, like sin, never rests.
~ Unknown
It's lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We'd all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.
~ Michael Connelly
The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.
~ Unknown
?nsan ba?kalar?n?n kusurlar?n? yabayla saman savururcas?na kolay aç??a ç?kar?r ama kendininkileri kurnaz bir kumarbaz?n zar?n? tutu?undaki ustal?kla saklar." - Buda
~ Michael Foley
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
~ Michael Korda
She, if anyone, was on a hell-bound train. I mean, if you're masquerading as a do-gooder, why not go all the way?
~ Unknown
If a woman enjoyed sex, or expressed her sexuality outwardly she was automatically a slut with no respect for herself. Sex was a favor you allowed your husband so angels wouldn't curse you until morning.
~ Unknown
Your Christ, the Church's Christ, is a god made in the image of effete men who've never had a good fuck in their lives, or if they have, who've thrashed themselves with whips to relieve their guilt. They hate their own cocks so much they'd light votive candles to make them fall off, if it would do the trick.
~ Unknown
He preached the love of God but burned people alive.
~ Unknown
What is inappropriate is accepting fossil fuel funding while attacking others for doing the same. Even less appropriate is lying about it.
~ Michael Shellenberger
Every time I hear somebody say, 'Well, I just want to help people,' I want to punch them in the face," said Vicki Westbrook. "Those are the people that are usually harming the people the most.
~ Michael Shellenberger
The trouble with the new environmental religion is that it has become increasingly apocalyptic, destructive, and self-defeating. It leads its adherents to demonize their opponents, often hypocritically. It drives them to seek to restrict power and prosperity at home and abroad. And it spreads anxiety and depression without meeting the deeper psychological, existential, and spiritual needs its ostensibly secular devotees seek.
~ Michael Shellenberger
they are flaunting their special status. Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common people.
~ Michael Shellenberger
Many Christians actually believe they are being charitable by proclaiming that they "hate the sin, not the sinner," which is not dissimilar to what Christians declared just before torching women as witches to save their souls, or when Christians called for pogroms against Jews for being Christ killers.
~ Michael Shermer
The "hypocrite" is the critic who disguises his own failings by focusing attention on the failings of others.
~ Michael Shermer
Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
~ Michel de Montaigne
For some reason my father saw no problem with us pplaying "barbie and ken go to hawaii to save their marriage by picking up another couple for sexy good times," but if barbie and ken had gone to hawaii to "rescue another couple from a crazed kidnapper," that would have been wrong.
~ Michele Jaffe
Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.
~ Michelle Malkin
Boetie said he would leave the house after a fight with his wife and walk the streets looking for a prostitute. He hated prostitutes and considered it a sin that they should charge money for a gift they had received from their Creator. In his opinion, they did not deserve to live.
~ Unknown
The pot calls the kettle black.
~ Miguel de Cervantes