Hypocrisy Quotes

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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
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
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
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
A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil. — Pope Francis
There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere? — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain
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
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
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
You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. — Malcolm X
And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives. — Ellen Page
Iâ€™ve never seen an exploding helicopter. Iâ€™ve never seen anybody go and blow somebodyâ€™s head off. So why should I make films about them? But… — John Cassavetes
In other words, Iâ€™m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his… — Viggo Mortensen
Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy. — Reinhold Niebuhr

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