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You and I have never seen democracy – all we’ve seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don’t see any American dream. We’ve experienced only the American nightmare. Malcolm X
I don’t do drugs … I want to thank management for offering … The war on drugs is hypocrisy, man. It’s not going to work. It’s a lie … The war on drugs is really a cock-sucker, isn’t it? Bill Hicks, Sane Man
The commonest charge against Cromwell is hypocrisy – and the commonest basis for that is defective chronology. W C Abbott, Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell
Do you want to be an angry prophet denouncing the hypocrisy of our time? Network 1976 Network starring Faye Dunaway & Peter Finch & William Holden & Robert Duvall & Wesley Addy & Ned Beatty & Beatrice Straight & Jordan Charney & William Prince & Lane Smith & Marlene Warfield & Conchata Ferrell et al, director Sidney Lumet
A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli, speech House of Commons 17th March 1845
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, 1906-1975
Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation. Iskander Mirza
Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone. John Milton, Paradise Lost 3:683
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? Job 20:5-7
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. Matthew 7:3-5
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Matthew 23:13&14
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them. Luke 11:44
Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on? ... I don’t know the answer; I know only that I can’t. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. Honore de Balzac
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life. Al Franken
As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that’s rampant there. Ben Mendelsohn
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue – is Hypocrisy. Lord Byron
Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There’s always a hidden agenda. Larry Flynt
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy as they undoubtedly are today. Mahatma Gandhi
I won’t tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world’s voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But 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. You have that moment now. Choose! Oscar Wilde
Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy. Christine Keeler
Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings. Howard Dean
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Charles Spurgeon
‘In this matter the difference between ‘Christians’ and Socialists is this: Christ taught the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Men. Those who today pretend to be Christ’s followers hypocritically profess to carry out those teachings now. But they don’t. They have arranged ‘The Battle of Life’ system instead!’ Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
You are not only a murderer, you are a hypocrite. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954 starring Kirk Douglas & James Mason & Paul Lukas & Peter Lorre & Robert J Wilke & Ted de Corsia & Carleton Young & J M Kerrigan & Percy Helton & Ted Cooper & Fred Graham et al, director Richard Fleischer, professor to captain Nemo
Hypocrisy is woven of a fine small thread,
Subtler than Vulcan’s engine: yet, believe’t,
Your darkest actions: nay, your privat’st thoughts
Will come to light. John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Ferdinand
In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings. Robert G Ingersoll