Top 556 Hypocrisy Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt
I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out...
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere.
Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.
There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.
What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!
There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?
Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media).
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
The Christianity that had come in my life as a child was all this idea that you're never going to see God. It's like hypocrisy, in a way.
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.
Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.
Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.
The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that.
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.
The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.
College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.
I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.
In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
I'm not two-faced, I'm honest, and I tell it the way it is. And I'm not good at hypocrisy, pretending to be someone I'm not.
No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.
Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.
Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.
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.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.
If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.
The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.
Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
