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Quotes About Hypocrisy

Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
~ Walt Handelsman
Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.
~ Mo Rocca
And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.
~ Elliot Page
I'm a part of the system now and I am helping people within that system and, so, it would be hypocrisy to be part of a system that I don't believe in.
~ Isaac Wright Jr.
A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
~ Don Marquis
For the U.S., a nation that boasts of being the land of the free, it does not live up to its ideal.
~ Opal Tometi
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
I think there's something fundamentally wrong with thinking that there's a God who looks after you but kills everyone else. There's something, if not immoral, then gross, about it.
~ Tim Minchin
The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.
~ Charlie Watts
Quand j'arriverai chez nous ce soir, ce sera marée basse. C'est ainsi que je préfère la mer : vaincue, retirée mais hypocrite, laissant une frange de ses trésors à nu et feignant la soumission.
~ Benoîte Groult
How is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
~ bernanos georges ii
Democracies cannot dispense with hypocrisy any more than dictatorships can with cynicism.
~ bernanos georges ii
The discreet slaughter of fifteen or twenty wretched people per day will not prevent tramways from running to schedule, cafés from being full, or churches resounding with the Te Deum.
~ bernanos georges iii
Le péché vaut mieux que l'hypocrisie.
~ Bernard Werber
infrastructures they're actively not contributing to through tax avoidance and evasion while hypocritically scorning the underclasses as the scourge of society who sponge off the state when they're the ones who are the biggest scroungers on society with no sense of community responsibility other than a very self-aggrandizing, tax-deductible form of fashionable charity they like to call philanthropism!
~ Bernardine Evaristo
It turned out that Republicans loved veterans very much, except when it came to funding their needs.
~ Bernie Sanders
The eleventh commandment --- Thou shalt not be found out --- is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days.
~ Berta Buxton
Those who are against Fascism without being against capitalism, who lament over the barbarism that comes out of barbarism, are like people who wish to eat their veal without slaughtering the calf.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Es curioso. Cuando se oye hablar a los señorones, sólo hacen la guerra por el temor de Dios y por todo lo que es bueno y hermoso. Pero si bien se mira no son tan tontos y hacen la guerra por la ganancia.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Well, what I don't understand is why people get all dressed up and drive to church so they can sit there and get scolded. Seems to me it'd be a whole lot easier for the to just stay home in their pj's, eat pancakes, and get yelled at over the radion.
~ beth hoffman
They all claimed to be religious men, but what kind of religion forces polygamous "marriages" on girls still playing with Barbie dolls?
~ Betty Webb
At least Harry realized that some of the worst murderers were the biggest criers at their victims' funerals.
~ Betty Webb
Self-pity, unaccountability and hypocrisy were recast as virtues and renamed forgiveness, solidarity and tolerance.
~ Bharati Mukherjee
Apathy is ascribed to the modest man, Fraud to the devout, Hypocrisy to the pure, Cruelty to the hero, Hostility to the anchorite, Fawning to the courteous man, Arrogance to the majestic, Garrulity to the eloquent, Impotence to the faithful. Does there exist any virtue Which escapes The slander of wicked men?
~ bhartrhari ii