Top Hypocrisy Quotes Collection

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Image of Frances Wright
it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.
- Frances Wright
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Image of Nikolas Schreck
Satanism represents opposition to hypocrisy, every human being feels rage, every human being feels anger, and we feel it is natural to express that anger in a healthy way.
- Nikolas Schreck
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Image of Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.
- Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
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Image of Georges Bernanos
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
- Georges Bernanos
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Image of Doc Holliday
It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.
- Doc Holliday
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Image of Doc Holliday
My hypocrisy only goes so far.
- Doc Holliday
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Image of Sarah Silverman
We don't live in a democracy; we live in a hypocrisy.
- Sarah Silverman
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Image of Oscar Wilde
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Reinhold Niebuhr
Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
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Image of James Laver
Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.
- James Laver
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Image of Bernard of Clairvaux
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
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Image of Julia Phillips
Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy.
- Julia Phillips
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Image of Iskander Mirza
Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.
- Iskander Mirza
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Image of Edward George, Baron George
No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy.
- Edward George, Baron George
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Image of Margaret of Valois
Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.
- Margaret of Valois
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Image of Michael Kinsley
If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
- Michael Kinsley
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Image of Kofi Abrefa Busia
I don't like hypocrisy-even in international relations.
- Kofi Abrefa Busia
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Image of Martin Parr
I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.
- Martin Parr
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Image of Eleanor Clift
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
- Eleanor Clift
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Image of Annette Gordon-Reed
It's always easier to spot others' hypocrisies while missing our own.
- Annette Gordon-Reed
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Image of Thomas Piketty
No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.
- Thomas Piketty
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Image of Thiruvalluvar
Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know.
- Thiruvalluvar
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Image of Marian Engel
All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.
- Marian Engel
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Image of James Herbert
Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.
- James Herbert
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Image of Wendy Doniger
(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.
- Wendy Doniger
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Image of Joel Makower
While it's good that we maintain high standards for companies seeking to claim environmental leadership, I can't help but ponder the hypocrisy of it all: how much more we expect of companies than of ourselves.
- Joel Makower
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Image of Jay Michaelson
While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy.
- Jay Michaelson
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Image of Sri Aurobindo
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
- Sri Aurobindo
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Image of Richard B. Garnett
Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.
- Richard B. Garnett
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Image of Laetitia Pilkington
when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.
- Laetitia Pilkington
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Image of Hosea Ballou
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
- Hosea Ballou
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Image of Jeremy Griffith
When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises
- Jeremy Griffith
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Image of Jeremy Griffith
The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere
- Jeremy Griffith
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Image of Janet Malcolm
[Y]ou never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you don't get caught, because if you are caught no one or no one who has any sense will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself.
- Janet Malcolm
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Image of Malcolm X
You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.
- Malcolm X
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Image of Kirby Dick
What I don't understand is how a policy against outing trumps a policy of reporting. Whenever you're reporting on hypocrisy, you're kind of 'outing' something to begin with.
- Kirby Dick
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Image of Clancy Martin
Unreflective self-deception leads people into hypocrisy and all sorts of moral failings. When you look at these people who are busy pontificating like I was a moment ago - Saint Clancy - those are the people that get into the most egregious kinds of moral problems.
- Clancy Martin
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Image of Laozi
When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.
- Laozi
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of George Bernard Shaw
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Image of Miuccia Prada
This is an example of hypocrisy
- Miuccia Prada
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Image of Charles Spurgeon
Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Image of Henry Ward Beecher
Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Image of Aesop
False friends leave you in times of trouble.
- Aesop
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Image of Henri Nouwen
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 much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.
- Henri Nouwen
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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Oscar Wilde
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Voltaire
Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.
- Voltaire
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Image of Laurence Sterne
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.
- Laurence Sterne
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Image of Mark Twain
Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.
- Mark Twain
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