Quotes About Hypocrisy

We felt uncomfortable in a country that called itself "the land of the free" but did not do much to qualify for the claim.

86 percent believe that Christians are hypocritical, saying one thing and doing another. 75 percent believe that Christians are too involved in politics. Over two-thirds believe that Christians are out of touch with reality, insensitive to others, boring, and not accepting of other faiths. 90 percent believe that Christians hate homosexuals.

this another example of Federation hypocrisy? These people reduced all political complexity to pious platitudes, while they constructed the greatest empire in the history of the Alpha Quadrant.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

What links Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Andrej Babis, Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Marine Le Pen is one simple character trait: hypocrisy. These politicians aren't tribunes of the people, they are hucksters. They aren't bitter enemies of the Western system; they are con artists who seek to profit from it.

Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

I know that there are people in the industry who praise me in person and then stab me in the back.

We are a jingoistic nation - whether it is politics or films or whatever. We can posthumously shower praises and accolades on people, but when they are alive, we don't bother about them. A classic case is Om Puri.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

I just don't like when you preach one thing and do something else.

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, it's just another normal.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

While men pretend not to judge women for the way they look, we go to great lengths to pretend we don't care, either.

In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral code.