Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 20

• Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Army, Navy, World

  Look Homeward, Angel pt. 3, ch. 36 (1929) SeeWoodrowWilson 15

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• If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.

  William Arnot

  Integrity, Character, Army

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• The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Honesty, Ignorance

  "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male". Book by Alfred Kinsey, 1948.

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• Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all that he could be in Christ. But that is not hypocrisy. Falling short of our ideals is not hypocrisy. Pretending we have reached our ideals when we have not - that is hypocrisy.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Fall, Hypocrite, Mean

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• Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hypocrite, Men, World

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Modesty, Form, Delicate

  Remy de Gourmont (1920). “Philosophic Nights in Paris”

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• It is impossible that this gnosis resulting in the heart should be achieved by man for any other purpose than to obey God, love Him, and worship Him. This gnosis should be sought for the sake of God, not for any other reason whatsoever, unlike the remaining external acts of devotion, which can be performed for other worldly interests, such as hypocrisy, praise, and commendation.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Heart, Men, Gnosis

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• Take a look at the police and how they treat you,
  Take a look at these corporations that cheat you.
  Democrats and Republicans are all see-through.
  Now we votin for the lesser of two evils...
  Man, don't let 'em deceive you.
  This is an autocracy, not a democracy,
  But to call this a democracy without mock interest
  In the laws of society? That's called hypocrisy.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Men, Law

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• Particularly marijuana, I think is a great hypocrisy. I think frankly it contributes to a good deal of the sense of unfairness you have among younger people who are told they shouldn't do this because it’s got all these negative effects, but then older people are engaging in all kinds of things that probably have a greater impact on people.

  Barney Frank

  Thinking, Marijuana, Impact

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• After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere.

  Boris Spassky

  Real, People, Chess

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• To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Couple, Independent, Men

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• Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

  Tom DeMarco

  Team, Games, Leader

  Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House

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• We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Fool, Irritated, Prepared

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.25, BookBaby

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• On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Lying, Hypocrite, Long

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

  Gary McCord

  Sports, Golf, Winning

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• The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames them. Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It's an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites.

  Ann Coulter

  Liars, Hypocrite, People

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.154, Crown Forum

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• There is only truth to be found - no lies, no shams, no illusions, no hypocrisy. Just a truthful place, where all beings are governed by a set of perfect laws that have never changed and never will.

  Eustace Conway

  Lying, Law, Perfect

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• Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Opposites, Imagination, Effort

  "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Buddhist Wisdom" by Gill Farrer Halls, (p. 162), 2000.

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• The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Faithful, Messages

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.33, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Tired, Acting, Energy

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.

  J. C. Ryle

  Sorry, Giving, Sin

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.58, Editora Dracaena

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• Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Dream, Teacher, Ignorance

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• I'm paid to preach not to practice.

  Isaac

  Practice, Paid

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• The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Vanity, Dupes

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• He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.

  Benjamin Harvey Hill

  Christian, Hate, Ambition

  Benjamin Harvey Hill (1891). “Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia: His Life, Speeches and Writings”

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