Hypocrisy Quotes
534 Hypocrisy quotes by 382 unique authors
-
If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be…
— Luc de Clapiers
-
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
— Theodore Roosevelt
-
Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know.
— Thiruvalluvar
-
The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they are so often…
— Frantz Fanon
-
Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in…
— Hooman Majd
-
It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the…
— Criss Jami
-
In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will…
— Criss Jami
-
Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely…
— Criss Jami
-
Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of…
— Criss Jami
-
Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.
— Criss Jami
-
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
— Anais Nin
-
Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
-
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of…
— Charles Caleb Colton
-
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.
— Charles Krauthammer
-
In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
-
It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have…
— Karl Marx
-
In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
-
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.
— Heinrich Heine
-
We don't live in a democracy; we live in a hypocrisy.
— Sarah Silverman
-
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and…
— Al Franken
Who Wrote These Hypocrisy Quotes
382 authors contributed a total of 534 Hypocrisy Quotes, led by these top contributors: