722 Quotes About Hypocrisy

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.

...in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.

I don't understand why people care so much about showing that they are good; because I am rather comfortable with having badness, quite okay with being inexplicable. They tire themselves so. The light is beautiful; but light can't hide treasures like the darkness can.

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

Compassion is not a sometime action; it's an every time passion! You can't be compassionate for less than 7 days in one week... That's first class hypocrisy!

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

All bear the burden of hypocrisy to some degree. How well do you minimize yours for the sake of fairness and consistency in thought and action?

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.