Quotes About Hypocrisy

Desconfiem e se afastem dos indivíduos que adulam os poderosos e pisoteiam os desprotegidos, são de ruim caráter, falsos e mesquinhos, faltos de grandeza.

Mein Mann ist zwar Inhaber einer Bank, aber wir sind sehr arm‹, sagte sie, derart unverschämt, dass ich Lust hatte, sie erschießen zu lassen.

pero sé que hay hombres buenos y malos, y que estos reflejan en su dios, predicando falsamente en su nombre, sus propias miserias.

Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

Progress is the hypocrisy in which vice is refined!

Hay a quien la palabra libertad no se le cae de la boca, pero la entienden como el derecho que ellos tienen a ejercerla. La censuran a los demás cuando no les conviene que salgan a la luz determinadas cosas.

El hipócrita no aspira a ser virtuoso, sino a parecerlo; no admira intrínsecamente la virtud, quiere ser contado entre los virtuosos por las prebendas y honores que tal condición puede reportarle.

The God they preach about is pure invention, a trick. They're the first ones to not believe in Him!

Ni a mí, que el orbe es testigo de que hipócrita no soy, pues por doequiera que voy va el escándalo conmigo.

We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.

Because inside, people are dirty dogs. Everybody. The only difference is some people try to hide it and others don't bother.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false.

Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.

Here, again, you find the unsoundness of many professors who consider themselves good Christians; they are partial in the law, and take up with the cheap and easy duties of religion, but go not through with the work. It may be you find them exact in their words, punctual in their dealings, but then they do not exercise themselves unto godliness; and as for examining themselves and governing their hearts, to this they are strangers.

God finds nothing in man to turn His heart, but enough to turn his stomach.

I think most decent people would be horrified at what happens today, even in our enlightened country. There are still mean, self-righteous Pharisees, who have a sick need to punish others whose troubled lives they can never begin to understand, much less feel compassion for.

For the first time he began to understand why Jesus had such compassion for the poor. Jesus could identify with them because they were treated with the same contempt as the religious officials and the law-obsessed hypocrites treated him.

One of our housekeepers called him Eddie Haskell. We'd never seen that old TV show Leave It to Beaver, but years later when I saw a couple of reruns on late-night TV, I realized that our housekeeper really hadn't liked Roger. Eddie Haskell was an unctuous, conniving brown-noser. He was the two-faced character who'd politely compliment Mrs. Cleaver on her lovely dress while instigating some evil prank that would inevitably get her son, the Beaver, in trouble.

Can I get you anything? A drink? A fresh change of clothes? A membership card to Hypocrites International?

Du ser splinten i din nestes øye, men ikke bjelken i ditt eget.

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.