Quotes About Hypocrisy

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?

I heard the distaste in her voice, the disdain for people who lived in trailers. She wouldn't say it out loud, but there it was. I wanted to ask her what she thought of people who lived in houses with scary drunks, but I didn't. Those sorts of questions only made her angry.

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.

When I performed at abstinence rallies, people were especially hard on me. I would be wearing the exact same shorts and T-shirts other girls my age wore and get yelled at for dressing sexy.

Those who consider themselves fair, are particularly ruthless.

There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best - in a way that cost them nothing. And that is why they us down so badly.

Sonderbar, dachte Ravic, daß Blutsauger so gern moralisch werden. Dieser alte Gauner mit der Rosette der Ehrenlegion im Knopfloch wirft mir vor, daß ich ihn ausnütze, anstatt sich zu schämen. Und er glaubt es sogar noch.

Where would the world be if one brought every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best—in a way that cost them nothing. And that is why they let us down so badly.

Why are pious people so rarely loyal

Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best, in a way that was the most comfortable for themselves. But as far as we are concerned, that is the very root of their moral bankruptcy.

There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best -- in a way that cost them nothing. And that is why they let us down so badly.

Ambition...the original of vices; Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit

Don Guillermo's house was no house, since he had not much money and was only a fascist to be a snob and to console himself that he must work for little

He was sentimental, and, like most sentimental people, he was both cruel and abused.

Women with bare arms are not allowed into church, but they let naked Jews dig their own graves.

Most of us get turned on at night by the very things that we'll demonstrate against during the day.

I feel the same about cocaine as I do about eating meat," she said. "It's vile and ultimately morally reprehensible, but as long as I don't pay for it—I find it quite enjoyable.

People, they all have the word goodness on lips a bloody knife between their teeth.

The fact that I despise religion doesn't mean I don't esteem it highly.

Mon oncle, que Dieu ait son âme, était l'ivrogne officiel du village. Il s'y engageait en chancelant. Il criait : « Mon Dieu, je vous en prie, laissez-moi passer, je ne boirai plus jamais. » Mais, quand il arrivait sur l'autre rive, il dansait, il chantait, il criait : « Je boirai encore. Ah, ah, ah! »

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad. It's why people who would give the shirt off their back to help the poor and the hungry will then march against genetically modified food, even if such food products could save millions of children from blindness or starvation. It's when people who want democracy in the Middle East find themselves building military bases instead of schools and hospitals.

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad. It's why people who would give the shirt off their back to help the poor and the hungry will then march against genetically modified food, even if such food products could save millions of children from blindness or starvation. It's when people who want democracy in the Middle East find themselves building military bases instead of schools

Bush was the great "tragedy,"3 but Obama has become the great hypocrite. He took on the mantle of his predecessor's wars and expanded on his powers just as Bush had expanded on Clinton's.