Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.
There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.
Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.
[Y]ou never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you don't get caught, because if you are caught no one or no one who has any sense will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself.
The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do.
Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.
Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.
What I don't understand is how a policy against outing trumps a policy of reporting. Whenever you're reporting on hypocrisy, you're kind of 'outing' something to begin with.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.