Quotes About Hypocrisy

This African revolutionary was no different from all the other revolutionaries who inscribed the words 'liberty,' 'justice' and 'progress' on their flags and then went on to kill, to torture and to suppress all living liberty in the name of their noble and human goal.

Rubio's sudden concern for the humanitarian situation in Venezuela smacks of hypocrisy, as he supported all US sanctions that have made life for Venezuelans miserable.

If we want to have a relationship with God, we must put aside our sinful ways of living. To claim that we belong to him but then to go out and live for ourselves is hypocrisy. Christ will expose and judge such deceit

We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

The hypocrisy of slaveholders who revolted against Britain's oppression of them but kept slaves in America was condemned in both England and America

Is it not confusing to young men to be taught in their churches and homes to honor, protect, and cherish women, but hear a deafening silence in response to Trump's low view of women by many of those same chivalry-promoting Christians?

You cannot stand for moral decency and express outrage over the objectification of women if you are willing to give Trump a free pass.

No one will take Christianity seriously if we shout about the moral injustices of past presidents, but are struck dumb when it comes to the moral injustices of the current one.

God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.

Joe Biden's irresponsibility and colossal lack of judgment in refusing to let the nuclear football near him in Delaware, and his hypocrisy and arrogance in claiming to be the sheriff who cuts government waste while incurring costs of a million dollars for personal trips on Air Force Two, are early signs of potential disaster were he to become president.

Geschändet, entehrt, im Blute watend, von Schmutz triefend – so steht die bürgerliche Gesellschaft da, so ist sie. Nicht wenn sie, geleckt und sittsam, Kultur, Philosophie und Ethik, Ordnung, Frieden und Rechtsstaat mimt – als reißende Bestie, als Hexensabbat der Anarchie, als Pesthauch für Kultur und Menschheit –, so zeigt sie sich in ihrer wahren, nackten Gestalt.

Our children aren't stupid, and they're not naive. They see when adults around them act hypocritically. They see what we value and believe by our actions, not our words.

While their moral standards for the rest of the world were rigid, they were always able to find excuses for their own shortcomings. It is these people really, said my father, small-time hypocrites, who may in special cases be capable of monstrous acts if given the chance. The Larks, in fact, were shrill opponents of abortion. Yet at the

The Larks are the sort of people who trot out their relationships with "good Indians," whom they secretly despise and openly patronize, in order to prove their general love for Indians, whom they are engaged in cheating.

Ce monde n' est je vous l'assure qu'une immense entreprise à se foutre du monde!

La burguesía es una podredumbre perfecta. Nunca, desde los tiempos bíblicos, nos ha sobrevivido una plaga más insidiosa, más obscena y más degradante que la viscosa sujeción burguesa. ¡Una clase astutamente tiránica, codiciosa, rapaz, y tartufesca hasta la médula!

we are ready enough to note the faults of others, while all the time unconscious of our own.

Ma perché si dev'essere così? Mascherati! Mascherati! Mascherati! Me lo dica lei! Perché, appena insieme, l'uno di fronte all'altro, diventiamo tutti tanti pagliacci?»

There is clearly a lot of dirty bath water surrounding the reality of God. Holy wars. Inquisitions. Animal sacrifice. Human sacrifice. Superstition. Stultification. Dogmatism. Ignorance. Hypocrisy. Self-righteousness. Rigidity. Cruelty. Book-burning. Witch-burning. Inhibition. Fear. Conformity. Morbid guilt. Insanity. The list is almost endless. But is all this what God has done to humans or what humans have done to God?

Ora aqui está um homem que detesta a folha e paga. Quantos a adoram e não pagam!

Her husband didn't confess the reason for his refusal to me. He told me, too, that it was because of personal business and the serious, convinced face with which I listened to him did honor to human hypocrisy.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis

For this can be said of men in general: that they are ungrateful, fickle, hypocrites and dissemblers, avoiders of dangers, greedy for gain; and while you benefit them, they are entirely yours, offering you their blood, their goods, their life, their children,...when need is far away, but when you actually become needy, they turn away. (translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn)

We now live in a world where murderers and terrorists can cause death and mayhem, and when the time is "right" for them, they convert to normal human values, and become a global icon and saint!

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.