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Jesus2 quotes
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. — Jesus · 60Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her. — Jesus · 90Abraham Lincoln1 quote
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom. — Abraham Lincoln · 1854Charlotte Bronte1 quote
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. — Charlotte Bronte · 1848Francois de La Rochefoucauld1 quote
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld · 1678Hannah Arendt1 quote
The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. 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 · 1963John Milton1 quote
Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone. — John Milton · 1667Mark Twain1 quote
The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little by way of example. — Mark Twain · 1880Milton Friedman1 quote
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. — Milton Friedman · 1983St. Jerome1 quote
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?" — St. Jerome · 394