Quotes About Hypocrisy

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.

The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!

Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."

How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.

Hükümet (veya insanl?k) idam cezas?na izin vermiyor ama milyonlarca kiÅŸinin her gün yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ öldürülmesine göz yumuyor. Bir insan? öldürmek -yani yaÅŸam?ndan 50 y?l almak- suç ama tüm insanlar?n yaÅŸamlar?ndan 50.000.000 y?l? çekip almak suç deÄŸil!

The work of the poet has always been to shine a bright light on the absurdities of society, challenging hypocrisy and greed, and presenting the tools of change. (Donovan)

Some elders, who appear to think they do not preach enough at other times, when asked to open a meeting with prayer, will not forget to preach a pretty good sermon before they stop praying. They will pray for everything on and above the earth as though they offered their secret prayers in public.

Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.

When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.

Ten thousand fools, knaves, cowards, lump'd together, Become all-wise, all-righteous, and all-mighty.

No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.

Cuando se trata de satisfacer al corazón, ningún vicio estaba a la altura de la hipocresía

La historia de la ética es un triste relato de ideales maravillosos que nadie cumple.

Many of those who signed the Declaration of Independence were slaveholders. They did not release their slaves upon signing the Declaration, nor did they consider themselves hypocrites. In their view, the rights of men had little to do with Negroes. The

Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs.

No empañes las palabras con hipócritas silencios censuradores.

Don't you love my idealism? My hypocrisy? My willingness to sound as loving and naive as possible? At least I know that I don't know anything at all. I can admit it. Can you? Can you look yourself in the mirror in the morning and admit that you are no different from every other bundle of bones on this planet? And maybe the only things that make you different are your hands, the way you touch things, and what happens to them.

I am rich, thank you very much. And you are excused for being shortsighted. It is Americans, you British, and all the other Westerners who think they know what's right and what's wrong, who make money from the sale of heroin and opium with one hand, and yet pay mullahs to preach that growing poppies is against the Koran with the other." He laughed. "Hypocrites all!

Robert C. Winthrop says: "Professed patriotism may be made the cover for a multitude of sins.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.