One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do.
Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved.
Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.
I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.
To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.
Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued to exist - I still think it was a great moment in human history.
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.
There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.
I've listened to Republicans say over and over again that we should focus on enforcing the laws that we have. The great hypocrisy of that statement is that they are deliberately handcuffing the enforcement agency that oversees current law.
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.