Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 11

• The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

  Oswald Chambers

  Today, Unreality, Pharisaism

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.163, Discovery House

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• America is basically a hypocritical society and recognizes that hypocrisy is found throughout. The public doesn't look for politicians to tell the truth or to deliver on their promises. This country could become America the beautiful, but it never will. It's in the hands of the wrong people. And the public is so apathetic. Those who are not apathetic are dispirited, discouraged, and disheartened. Those who will sometimes feel a twitch of inspiration that would lead them to do something, they, based on their conditioning, will start to total up all the reasons why they can't succeed.

  Ernie Chambers

  Beautiful, Country, Inspiration

  "The Maverick of Omaha". Interview With Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2006.

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• If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

  Charles Koch

  Children, Opposites, Spots

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• W. Kamau Bell is in the vanguard of a new era of American comedy for an unsettling, troubling, and strangely hopeful time. Firmly in the fearless tradition of Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, & Chris Rock. Comedy as common sense purged of the absurd hypocrisy that is Our America.

  Vernon Reid

  America, Rocks, Common Sense

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• It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Men, Soul, Use

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.85

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• When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

  Laozi

  Cleverness

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.27, Chinese University Press

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• Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Two, Individuality, Two Things

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• Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Thinking, Sin, Truth Is

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Evil, Political

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Reality, Over It, Nothingness

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3730, Delphi Classics

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• Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

  D. H. Lawrence

  People, Used, Bluffs

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3740, Delphi Classics

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• The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words!

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Hate, Fighting, Winning

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• In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

  Hannah Arendt

  Love Is, Stranger

  Letter to James Baldwin, November 21, 1962.

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• Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Enemy, Selfishness, Weakness

  "New Lamps for Old". Nine articles by Sri Aurobindo in the "Indu Prakash" (a Bombay daily newspaper), August 21, 1893.

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• Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.

  Ben Jonson

  Heart, Spread, Bosoms

  Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1811). “The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher”, p.68

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• Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

  George Orwell

  Views, Behaviour, Social

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.

  Mark Steyn

  Ignorance, Mean, Government

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• I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.

  Robert Breault

  Cheating, Lying, Would Be

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• In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Holiday, Men, Rose

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling in the nation must be quickened, the conscience of the nation must be roused, the propriety of the nation must be startled, the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed: and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Fire, Light

  Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 5 July 1852

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• And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.

  Ellen Page

  Thinking, People, Easy

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. March 31, 2011.

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• You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

  Malcolm X

  Democracy

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?

  Rumi

  Sweet, Healing, Water

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 19: "Jesus Poems", p. 204, 1995.

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• Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  World Love, Inner Peace, Honest

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• Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

  Frederick Douglass

  Practice, America, Abuse

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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