Quotes About Hypocrisy

I've learned enough times in life that saying something is completely different than acting upon it.

I've been acting professionally since I was 15 years old, and after a while, you get really tired of people telling you one thing and then doing another.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.

Those who are most pious and noble tend to be the least tolerant.

I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.

Houses had the meanest set of white people in them. Pretty in their living but nasty in their ways.

Most are pious, but with a peculiar sort of piety. They seem to me to be hiding behind God in disgust at their own meanness.

Don't you think that queer? That a common coarse-featured woman might drink morphia and be sent to gaol for it, while I am saved and sent to visit her—and all because I am a lady?

Everyone's so narrow and mean and --' 'No. Only a few people are. But the rest of us -- don't you see? The rest of us become narrow and mean when we live falsely....

why must people of that class always reveal so much of themselves? A few more minutes and she would have shown us her varicose veins.

JOHN 5:22 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.

It was just she was so full of bullshit and someone needed to call her on it and...and...she reacted so beautifully.

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

Deceit finds its way into every religion, including Christianity. In fact, deceit was at work from the very beginning. Two sorts of deceit are found in our verses: some leaders deceive the people of God (7:15–20), while some deceive themselves (7:21–23).

Many in our day climb under the moral shade of Matthew 7:1 to take the supposed high road in saying, "I'm not the judge." Those who take this supposed high road may be missing the whole point of Jesus' words: sin is sin, and one cannot follow Jesus and turn a blind eye to sin. What Jesus is calling us to here is not the absence of moral discernment.

Then Martin says, as if he is writing a commentary on Matthew 6:19–24: "The acid test is not what we say, but what we do; not what we promise in words, but what we actually give in money.

maybe it's just my imagination but I can smell the stench of a decaying humanity wallowing in the throes of hypocrisy, apathy, misery and I take a DEEP breath before stepping out.

oh great, more Really Important People sitting down beside me with their damned mobile phones to screech in LOUD voices condos resale values, great new stock options, frequent flyer miles, who is fucking whom… actually, i think the rest of us are being screwed by these social leeches but god they look good don't they

Of course, I'm a stark staring hypocrite for telling you not to take it personally. It's easy to prescribe remedies for our own weaknesses when they're comfortably ensconced in other people.

suppose you're going to lie about your maggot pudding, and that's why you've hidden it away. Because you're so proud." "Oh, no," she said. "The Reverend's coming, and he's a vegetarian, so he can't have maggots.