Quotes About Hypocrisy

So many people, if the truth were known, live their lives on two levels. The principles they fight about are often at odds with the complicated and often frustrated lives they live. This is why there is so much intensity.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

A cunning politician often lurks under the clerical robe; things spiritual and things temporal are strangely jumbled together, like drugs on an apothecary's shelf; and instead of a peaceful sermon, the simple seeker after righteousness has often a political pamphlet thrust down his throat, labeled with a pious text from Scripture.

There were two kinds of people Grandpa didn't trust, a preacher and a cop. He'd say "They both think they're sanctified in everything they do.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Düzen"in ç?karlar? u?rana öldürmeyi sürdürüyorsun; ama korkakça, sinsi sinsi öldürüyorsun. Beni herkesin önünde ahlâks?zl?kla suçlarken do?rudan gözlerimin içine bakamazs?n. Çünkü hangimizin daha ahlâks?z, hangimizin ?ehvet dü?künü, hangimizin aç?k saç?k yay?nlar?n hayran? oldu?unu çok iyi biliyorsun.

As a rough rule, it seems that writers fall into two camps. There are those who delight in rousting the truth from its concealment amid pieties and convention. If they must strip-mine the world to expose its hypocrisy, they will do so, even if they leave a landscape barren of hope. Then there are those writers who prefer to remythologize life on earth, finding it rich with strange congruences and possibilities.

Greene: "It's not reasonable to expect actual humans to put aside nearly everything they love for the sake of the greater good. Speaking for myself, I spend money on my children that would be better spent on distant starving children, and I have no intention of stopping. After all, I'm only human! But I'd rather be a human who knows that he's a hypocrite, and who tries to be less so, than one who mistakes his species-typical moral limitations for ideal values.

If you want to know what the English really think about consumption, ignore what they say, but look at what they do.

Una cosa es desear la paz y otra muy distinta fingir que la guerra misma no existe" D

Seríamos capaces de abuchear a Luciano Pavarotti si desafinara en su ópera prima, pero aplaudimos al líder de alabanza que «desafina para la gloria de Dios». Pedir

The bathroom was made of the finest materials, but underneath it all was nothing but shit.

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

Sometimes at night she would be wakened by thunderclaps of passion from her father in the next room. They terrified and disgusted her, although they were not so nauseating as the underlying slithery hypocrisy of her mother's acceptance. She'd always thought her mother was the loving one and her father stolid.

A sheep in wolf's clothing should not bleat within the pack.

In fact, they're total hypocrites when it comes to opposing American exceptionalism (or whatever you want to call the belief that living here is the ultimate privilege).

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

What is a law, if those who make it Become the forwardest to break it?

Nunca o mal é feito tão bem como quando é feito em nome da religião.

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -!

I care not for your envy, or your hypocrisy, or even for your human nature.

In the "lynching era," between 1880 to 1940, white Christians lynched nearly five thousand black men and women in a manner with obvious echoes of the Roman crucifixion of Jesus. Yet these "Christians" did not see the irony or contradiction in their actions.