Quotes by Hypocrisy While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy. Jay Michaelson strongerfanshypocrisy Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. Jean Antoine Petit-Senn hypocrisyeyevices There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery. Jean de la Bruyere modestyvanityhypocrisy I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy. Jean de la Bruyere hypocrisydoubtspring If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him. Henry David Thoreau philosophicalhypocrisymen When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises Jeremy Griffith raisesfailinghypocrisy The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere Jeremy Griffith truth-ishypocrisyhumans The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face. Jeremy Hardy kickinghypocrisypast Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy. Jeremy Taylor hypocrisyhypocriteenemy It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself. Jerry A. Coyne hypocrisytryingprofound More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about. Never mind the intellectual hypocrisy of this: Those who violate the clublike code are made out to be wrong, immoral, corrupt. Jerry Saltz hypocrisywritingart Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend. Jewel needlesknow-howhypocrisy My job as a reporter, my job as a senior White House correspondent for CNN, is to report the news, but also to highlight and put a microscope on episodes of presidential hypocrisy. And you know, if Donald Trump was going to come after us out on the campaign trail, and as president of the United States through his tweets, I think we are well within our rights to defend ourselves, and also provide that kind of critical coverage to the American people. Jim Acosta seniorhypocrisythinking While it's good that we maintain high standards for companies seeking to claim environmental leadership, I can't help but ponder the hypocrisy of it all: how much more we expect of companies than of ourselves. Joel Makower high-standardsenvironmentalhypocrisy Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice. John Adams hypocrisysufferingnames Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness. John Calvin hypocrisyheartmen What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe hypocrisymirrorsintegrity Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once. Johann Kaspar Lavater individualityhypocrisytwo A saint abroad, and a devil at home. John Bunyan devilhypocrisyhome Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself. John Calvin emptyhypocrisyenough«678910111213141516»
