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It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.
American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious.
Prayer has never made you right, because right now our world of Islam is filled with abject hypocrisy in its religiosity.
Be it at JNU or any institute, students want India to shine. They want the country to get rid of mediocrity and hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.
The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
I'm not two-faced, I'm honest, and I tell it the way it is. And I'm not good at hypocrisy, pretending to be someone I'm not.
What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.
Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.
After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere.
If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
Hypocrisy, something Jesus railed against, has become perhaps the most prominent feature of the religious right in the Trump era.
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.
Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.
A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media).
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.
There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!
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.
Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.
Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?
We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.
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 have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
The Christianity that had come in my life as a child was all this idea that you're never going to see God. It's like hypocrisy, in a way.
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.
Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!
My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.
I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.