Quotes About Hypocrisy

Flares and small incendiary bombs began to fall as the car approached Kreuzberg. The neighborhood was a typical target for the RAF's current strategy of killing as many civilian factory workers as possible. With staggering hypocrisy Churchill and Attlee were claiming they attacked only military targets, and civilian casualties were a regrettable side effect. Berliners knew better.

cheated look, like a eunuch at an orgy: Aunt

got elected by promising law and order. The blatant hypocrisy of it all makes us kind of furious.

Nunca he confiado en los que proclaman su honestidad desde el púlpito de una iglesia —fue la respuesta de Edmund—. Ese tipo de personas con tan alto concepto de sí mismas siempre encuentran una excusa para violar sus propias reglas. Prefiero tener tratos con pecadores normales y corrientes; ésos al menos creen que al final les es más provechoso decir la verdad y cumplir sus promesas. Y es algo sobre lo que no suelen cambiar de opinión.

My father hated people who preached about morality. We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count. It's when you want so badly to do something wrong - when you're about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor's wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble - that's when you need the rules.

Un uomo che aveva una relazione galante era considerato vizioso, ma in fondo romantico; una donna che faceva altrettanto era una puttana.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality.

Cyber trolls' deceptive manipulative, political power play, duplicity and devious hypocrisy cannot equate to true friendship.~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

She says the problem with most Christians is that they show up once a week to pray that God's will be done- and when it is, they complain.

Look as a painted man is no man and as painted fire is no fire so a cold prayer is no prayer.

How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself?

Todos aplaudimos, con asombrosa deshonestidad colectiva.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise

Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent!

I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!