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Hypocrisy Quotes


"Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy."



"Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts."


"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 spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments."


"Not everyone who condemns masturbation can masturbate."


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


"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 Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension."


"We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others, while we act as evils."



"Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy."


"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 supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on."


"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about."


"Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm."



"You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too."


"Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that."



"He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave."



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


"He who acquired all his wealth by 'being at the right place at the right time' is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his 'being at the wrong place at the wrong time.'"
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