Quotes about Hypocrisy

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

The people who make wars, the people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, the really evil people in a word- these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

Turning to God without turning from self' - the formula is absurdly simple; and yet, simple as it is, it explains all the follies and iniquities committed in the name of religion.

A man can smile and smile and be a villain. Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain. What

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?

When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell.

Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.

God's people don't always act like God's people should.

I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

I was adept at fooling the deity. I prayed immediately after all crimes until eventually prayer and crime became indistinguishable to me.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Why do you not practice what you preach.