Quotes About Hypocrisy

Accordingly, I believe that preaching forgiveness is not only hypocritical and futile but also actively dangerous. It masks the compulsion to repeat.

They were tolerant of what most people in town would think of as moral lapses in each other, but quite intolerant of departures in dress and hair style, and people not cutting the crusts off of sandwiches ...

The Lord don't like ugly, she say. And he ain't stuck on pretty.

Why are women so easily tramps and traitors when men are heroes for engaging in the same activity? Why do women stand for this?

I remember feeling very angry at Betty Friedan. AB: What? Why? Well... she hated housework and wanted women to be independent, but then she's hire other women to do her housework.

and when we talk about holy books and hooded men and death, why do we never mention the kkk?

Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

Munafik adalah berprasangka tapi sok suci.

BLACKGUARD, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market—the fine ones on top—have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman.

Hypocrite, n. One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

We must subdue our detestable habit of shaking hands with prosperous rascals and fawning upon the merely rich.

POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

nothing proclaims disunity like shrill proclamations of unity on every corner.

Strange, to lock men up for thieving when the whole army lived on robbery. To dangle men for murder when they were all at the business of killing. What makes a crime in a time when men take what they please from who they please?

Gold and silver is everything to everyone. Some of us have enough of it to pretend otherwise.

Folk she'd known to be big on religion had tended to use it as an excuse for doing wrong rather'n a reason not to.

Ig laughed at that. The things people said. The effortless way they lied, to others, to themselves.

All us humans are fouled on both ends. One we shit out of, and the other we talk shit out of.

Affectation lights a candle to our defects, and though it may gratify ourselves, it disgusts all others

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same colour.

It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often those most eager to violate animal life at the first opportunity.

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

How many Christians live for appearances? Their life seems like a soap bubble. The soap bubble is beautiful, with all its colours! But it lasts only a second, and then what?