Hypocrisy Quotes
534 quotes by 382 authors
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Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect…
— Jack Kelly
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Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United…
— J. William Fulbright
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A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil.
— Pope Francis
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There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?
— Unknown Author
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Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but…
— Henri Nouwen
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Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search…
— Frederick Douglass
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When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly…
— Albert Einstein
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I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and…
— Mark Twain
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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.
— Mark Twain
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They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice. This is American…
— Malcolm X
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The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a…
— Oswald Chambers
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Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy.
— Malcolm X
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And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.
— Ellen Page
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I’ve never seen an exploding helicopter. I’ve never seen anybody go and blow somebody’s head off. So why should I make films about them? But…
— John Cassavetes
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In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his…
— Viggo Mortensen
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Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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