Hypocrisy Quotes

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Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children — Gro Harlem Brundtland
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. — Logan Pearsall Smith
I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy. — Paul Krassner
One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick… — Russell Baker
Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love. — Pitirim Sorokin
I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out! — Anton Szandor LaVey
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not… — Louis Sullivan
Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by… — Carroll Quigley
Every man, every art, has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with little and many lies. — Romain Rolland
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them.… — Nella Larsen
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original… — Thomas Brooks
More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about.… — Jerry Saltz
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who… — Erwin McManus
I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field. — Boris Pasternak
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter… — Todd Solondz
English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so… — Paul Scott
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is… — Jean de la Bruyere

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