A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Hypocrisy Quotes
Surely the hypocrites are evil-doers.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
Falsity withered in her (Eleanor Roosevelt) presence. Hypocrisy left the room.
May the man be dammed and never grow fat, who wears two faces under one hat.
Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou are not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty.
The safest way to avoid hypocrisy is simple; eliminate the standards one might have trouble keeping.
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion – several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying […]
