Hypocrisy Quotes · Page 30

I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

— Paul Krassner

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

— Mary Baker Eddy

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

— Martin Luther

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Some women... they fear dating an old man who still lives with his mother ... but they are not afraid going to…

— Mercy Pheona

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

— William Hazlitt

“He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle – that should be his tone.”

— Margaret Atwood

Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon…

— Thomas Paine

There is only truth to be found - no lies, no shams, no illusions, no hypocrisy. Just a truthful place, where all…

— Eustace Conway

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

— Quintilian

What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as…

— Mikhail Bakunin

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

— Oscar Wilde

When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't…

— John F. Kerry

“God told us to love everyone. However, when you don’t like someone then you need to walk away and focus not on…

— Shannon L. Alder

two things do me in: one's chocolate cake, the other's hypocrisy.

— Roseanne Barr

“Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be…

— Paulo Coelho

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is…

— Michel Foucault

Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of…

— Thomas Otway

History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.

— Louis Fischer

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated…

— Frederick William Robertson

“He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he…

— William Swan Plumer

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

— Sydney J. Harris

“The hand that pockets the corrupt coin places it in the collection plate seeking absolution.”

— Stewart Stafford

“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

— Abraham Lincoln