Hypocritical Quotes

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You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. — Diane Abbott
I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical… — Anthony Bourdain
Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain. — Niccolo Machiavelli
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit… — Judith Crist
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive… — Joseph Butler
I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your opponent to win. If you… — Percy Cerutty
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of… — Camille Paglia
I'm disappointed that my own Catholic Church has decided that capital punishment is wrong. Which is pretty hypocritical if you think about it, because they… — Stephen Colbert
I want a woman who can go to the saloon with me, not hypocritical, fame seeking — Denrele Edun
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as… — Robert Green Ingersoll
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it… — George Grosz
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth — Che Guevara
Congress is best viewed from a distanceâ€”the farther the betterâ€”because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at… — Robert M. Gates
As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of… — William Eldridge Odom
If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't… — James Sinegal
We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical. — Radhanath Swami
... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I… — Thomas Jefferson
Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit! Satan represents… — Anton Szandor LaVey
A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you. — Joseph Sobran
I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play. — Ian McDiarmid

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