Quotes About Hypocrisy

I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.

There are a lot of people who were born into immense privilege who pretend that they weren't.

Don't be righteous and a liar at the same time - I have a problem with that.

Liberals spend a whole lot of time trying to convince us they love teachers, but dig even skin deep into the matter, and it becomes evident that liberals hate teachers.

It's fun to play the type of people you dislike.

I know me, and I know my heart. I know what the Lord expects. I know what a Christian's supposed to act like, but you can't act it.

A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery, and as a nation, we never faced that because the people in power chose not to.

My mother, throughout her entire life, has been faithful to the church, even though the church has not been that faithful to her because of her politics.

Someone who's fake is someone who acts one way around their family and their close friends, but once they get out in the public, they're this whole different person.

I don't like fake people.

I don't care about media crocodile tears for pageviews.

Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy.

I'm not two-faced, I'm honest, and I tell it the way it is. And I'm not good at hypocrisy, pretending to be someone I'm not.

Now that Europe has developed through deforestation and fossil fuel use it is telling Brazil not to develop through deforestation and fossil fuel use. Bolsonaro is the backlash against such hypocrisy.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too.

Jesus didn't shy away from sinners, so why should the church? And don't tell me the church welcomes sinners. I know better. It welcomes only sinners who repent and then never seriously need forgiveness again.

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings.

Huddled in folds they listened with wide eyes while the shepherds told of ravening wolves. With great gladness they exchanged their fleeces for security. Shorn and shivering, they had the happiness of seeing their protectors comfortable and warm. Through all the years, those who plowed divided with those who prayed. Wicked industry supported pious idleness, the hut gave to the cathedral, and frightened poverty gave even its rags to buy a robe for hypocrisy.

You're like everyone else, Strike; you want your civil liberties when you've told the missus you're at the office and you're at a lap-dancing club, but you want twenty-four-hour surveillance on your house when someone's trying to force your bathroom window open. Can't have it both ways.

He was a rich white Conservative male, Mr. Strike, and he felt the corridors of power were best populated exclusively by rich white Conservative males. He sought, in everything, to restore a status quo he remembered in his youth. In pursuit of that objective, he was frequently unprincipled and certainly hypocritical.

a man with as dirty a record as his!… This is the sort of man that poses as a leader of the people! And successfully, too! Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm