(131 quotes found)
“God is sacred. Religion is profane.”
Rain Bojangles
“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity”
Andre Gide
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde
“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob”
“Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.”
Raisa M. Gorbachev
“Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion”
“HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.”
Ambrose Bierce
“What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
Hannah Arendt
“There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.”
Frederick W. Robertson