Hypocrisy Quotes

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!
Dalai Lama

Political, Tell, While

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt

Hypocrite, Cannot, Forgiven

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke

Nothing, Promise, Beyond

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue, Vice, Pays

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli

Government, Organized

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce

Politeness, Acceptable

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
Alexander Theroux

Problem, Essence, Belonging

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Fidel Castro

War, Find, Capitalism

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Great, Honesty, Talent

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Honore de Balzac

Nation, Manners

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Jose Marti

Liberty, Honest, Speak

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
David E. Price

Live, Justice, Help

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
Paul Wellstone

Democracy, Moral, Idea

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
Lord Byron

Pay, Virtue, England

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Happy, Why, Put

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Stendhal

Vagueness, Allows

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
Mason Cooley

Outside, Cynicism

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
Frederick William Robertson

Three, Deserve, Tyranny

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
Rebecca West

Powerful, Likely, Agent

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
Bernard de Mandeville

Passion, Learned, Act

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
Victoria Woodhull

Dreams, Great, Society

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.
Howard Dean

Long, Moral, Value

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.
Alan Dershowitz

Important, Democracy, Place

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
Richard Pryor

Racism, Before, Gone

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
Pete Townshend

Sad, Live, True

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.
Benjamin Carson

Hypocrite, Saying, Kids

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
Barry White

Truth, Corruption, Find

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
Judith Martin

Social, Virtue, Sin

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
Christine Keeler

Word, Polite, Discretion

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