Quotes About Hypocrisy

It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

One attended one's church, and one stood and one kneeled and one sat at the proper times and did what was required of one, but to scratch beneath this highly lacquered surface was to venture well beyond the pale in that society and invite stares and whispers and certain banishment.

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious." Barth

We drove to the hotel and said goodbye. How hypocritical to go upstairs with a man you don't want to fuck, leave the one you do sitting there alone, and then, in a state of great excitement, fuck the one you don't want to fuck while pretending he's the one you do. That's called fidelity. That's called monogamy. That's called civilization and its discontents.

Pleasure bubbled in Ashfur's chest. I'm not cruel, he told himself. This was all Squirrelflight's fault. She drove me to this. I only wanted the Clans to see what hypocrites they are.

Se podría decir que Arlt construye la perspectiva del cínico. También podría decirse, la perspectiva nihilista de quien denuncia la violencia enmascarada pero inexorable de una forma social hipócrita. La refutación

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

How many there are that spend their lives in the midst of all the pleasing trifles of that vast museum of curiosities which are labeled religious, and think themselves Christians!

Many men carry their religion as a church carries its bell--high up in a belfry, to ring out on sacred days, to strike for funerals, or to chime for weddings. All the rest of the time it hangs high above reach--voiceless, silent, dead.

The most hateful evil in the world is the evil that dresses itself in such a way that men cannot hate it. The men that make wickedness beautiful are the most utterly to be hated.

Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

Like most people who proclaim themselves free spirits, she was fiercely conventional.

live a double life, to love those around you while concealing your true inner self, to appear to be one person to the external world and quite another inside.

persons who claim mystical powers often enjoy remarkably ambidextrous moralities when presented with opportunities for enrichment.

The left's anti-bullying stance is an enormous lie. It is a purposeful lie. It is a lie designed to disguise the fact that leftists are the greatest group of bullies in American history.

Hypocrisy as humor pushes destruction of standards.

That's how social standards work for the left: If you have the right politics, you can get away with anything. If you have the wrong ones, it'll ignore its own hypocrisy to nail you to the wall.

If you force a leftist to answer why we should all give up our nice cars while the Chinese and Russians continue to dump toxic waste into the atmosphere, they will avoid.

Esto se acabó. Es cuanto por ahora podemos decir de las personas que parecen buenas y no lo son.

A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

To allow a human being to drown because you are busy telling God how much you care about Him and His world is the ultimate hypocrisy.

We are such volatile creatures, we finally feel sentiments we feign