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Hypocrisy Quotes

In Judaism, the temple was the most holy site in the world. But if you extend that argument as a metaphor, and you say 'The world is a holy place,' and you're treating this holy place like a money-lending psycho, then Jesus says, 'This is hypocrisy!' and he'd point it out and flip it over.

World You Hypocrisy Place Argument

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

Truth Time Simple People Hypocrisy

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.

Power Think Greed Hypocrisy Driven

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

You Look Back Hypocrisy Deal Your

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

Christine Keeler

Hypocrisy Discretion Word Polite

Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.

Fish Hypocrisy Nobody Eat Claim

When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.

Think You Hypocrisy Begin Must Rid

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

Kitchen Hell Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying you're moral is not the same as acting morally.

Alan Dershowitz

Saying You Back Hypocrisy Acting

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Hypocrisy Flag Signal Ostentation

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

Truth Lie Weakness Hypocrisy Born

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

Truth Corruption Hypocrisy Find Own

Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.

Politics American Hypocrisy Out Just

Certain Arabs love Dubai because it's not at all like where they live. Certain others hate it for the same reason. When you hear an Osama bin Laden sympathizer rant about the decadence and hypocrisy of the Arab ruling class, you can be certain he's picturing a nightclub in Dubai.

Love Live Hate Dubai You Hypocrisy

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Ambition Worth Hypocrisy Pound Ounce

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Action Free Thought Hypocrisy Deceit

I get the hypocrisy thing, but any human being is allowed to have a public and private face, and celebrities should have the same rights as regular people to decide what cards they lay down and what cards they hide.

People Face Hypocrisy Hide Down

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

Democracy Hypocrisy Moral Come Been

I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.

Man Religion Feel Hypocrisy Done

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

Sad Happy World Rest Face Hypocrisy

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

Alexander Theroux

Problem Hypocrisy Belonging Essence

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

History Hypocrisy Privacy Begins

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

Character Thinking Reality Hypocrisy

Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?

John Quincy Adams

Man Religion Brand Hypocrisy Fraud

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