Quotes About Hypocrisy

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone, extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic, whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling, never a gentleman.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves;

Vice knows that she's ugly, so she puts on a mask.

A man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law.

From Fronto I learned to observe what envy and duplicity and hypocrisy are in a tyrant, and that generally those among us who are called Patricians are rather deficient in paternal affection.

The world is a sewer of lies. We're all up to our necks in the sweet shit of it.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

In the fun house of today's metastisizing sports-entertainment megaplex, when every day brings another story revealing how these 'heroes' we create are fashioned from base clay, a pause might be in order to reflect on athletes who actually embodied the qualities we think we admire in the too-easily deified.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

There's always going to be a gap between what you believe and what you actually do, regardless of what your background is.

I get the hypocrisy thing, but any human being is allowed to have a public and private face, and celebrities should have the same rights as regular people to decide what cards they lay down and what cards they hide.

Both Conservative and Labour politicians in Britain are rather too fond of praising the relative 'classlessness' of American society and of urging their own people to emulate it. There is a certain falseness about such arguments, and also a certain hypocrisy.

BJP are opposed to a Muslim boy marrying a Hindu girl. Then how did BJP have an alliance with Mehbooba Mufti or Nitish Kumar or Chandrababu Naidu?

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

Too much of our media, and not just sports media, but media, in general, is one where the people with the voices live in glass houses.

If you were chopping up hookers or eating runaways, you'd try to look normal.

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. Few villains think they are villains.

The vast majority of humanity today Seems bereft of all common sense. They lack the eye able to tell right from wrong And stagger off the cliff falling to extremes. Some, poisoned by the waters of jealousy, Are obsessed with the thought of besting others; While others, poisoned by hatred and hypocrisy, Race around in a state of utter delirium. And both claim to uphold the spiritual path!

There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is -- to live, to work.

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.