Quotes About Hypocrisy

To say one thing and do another - to take one's own word lightly - cannot inspire trust. To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and negate man [sic] is a lie.

If you hate something, don't you do it too?

If a community bends over backward to be publicly liberal, it can give itself the bonus of private snobbery.

The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He's about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? There'd be riots in the streets about the people we're killing. And yet because it's Obama, and he's better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.

People love to criticise, to say what you should have done, what they would have done, when they usually do nothing at all, for anybody.

Pjäsen handlade, sa Konungen till mig, om att ondskan funnes i så hög grad hos dessa människor vid hovet att de liknade apor eller djävlar; de gladde sig åt andras olyckor och sörjde över deras framgångar, detta vore det som druidernas tid kallades Kannibalism, Anthropophagie. Därför befunno vi oss bland Kannibaler.

His lips in truth-entangling lines which smiled the lie his tongue disdained to speak.

If you are what you eat, then why aren't you what you desire?" Desire stands in the great no-man's land of human activity: the zone of most conflict, fear, and anxiety. It scares us. We are often asked to hate it—by those who claim to have given it up for "better" things, and who often, hypocritically, haven't.

They have possessions without power, wealth without true worship, and prosperity without God's presence!

Quakers quaking. Congregationalists congregating, Baptists baptizing, Dutch Reformers reforming; Episcopalians pissing on the lot. All asked for money to support the war against evil.

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

It's not the pain that hurts,' she said, 'it's finding out that one of your idols is a real asshole.

When Christians feel crushed by such "people of God," faith is exposed as something that just doesn't work here and now. And if something doesn't work, intellectual arguments for staying in the faith lose their appeal over time. Why bother?

Do not become what you despise.

The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.

About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”

You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.

Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.

You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.