Quotes About Hypocrisy

The karmic web of life is an energetic web of empathy, like a web of socialization, where hypocrisy is like a formal politeness of two-faced indifference.

Don't use the same mouth to lie and pray to God at the same time.

Everyone want to define love, but no one wish to practice it.

Our priests like to be called father, while claiming that they are fatherless.

The holy man can pretend to hate the pleasures of this world, while at the same time he is still praying and begging for similar satisfactions in heaven.

The majority of people imagine themselves to be so religious, while breaking the laws, instead of the rules alone.

The same people who claim to despise the very name of narcissism are the same people who advise us to turn to self-esteem and self-love.

We claim to love the poor and yet no one wishes to become poor in life. Therefore, it is a false statement made by flatterers.

We have been teaching exactly the same things that we claim to avoid in life.

Who said "ladies" don't use words like "fuck" and "cunt," or that one doesn't use them around "ladies"? Maybe not when you're having lunch with a lady, but when a lady's fucking, she's not having lunch.

We know, for instance, that Americans have forcefully resisted extending the right to vote; those in power have disenfranchised blacks, women, and the poor in myriad ways. We know, too, that women historically have had fewer civil protections than corporations. Instead of a thoroughgoing democracy, Americans have settled for democratic stagecraft: high-sounding rhetoric, magnified, and political leaders dressing down at barbecues or heading out to hunt game.

Christians have done far more damage to the church of Jesus Christ than any sinners outside the church could inflict.

In short, their practice contradicts what they profess. They are trapped in cognitive dissonance.

There was no greater hypocrite than one with a high moral tone, Miss Marple reflected.

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

So many hypocrites, people busy preaching acceptance and tolerance but hating and rejecting everyone who isn't exactly like them.

A silk stocking filled with mud.

No man, for any considerable time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom...

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

While I remained ambitious, punctual, and hedonistic at home, I had learned to better appreciate the timeless beauties and blessings of nature, to value sincerity as a cardinal virtue and reject the Western reverence for affectation and hypocrisy, and to make my frantic life pause for sunrises, sunsets, and full moons.

Probably one of those who ostentatiously carried plastic bags but never stooped to using one.