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Hypocrisy10 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 · 60Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld · 1678Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone. — John Milton · 1667Conventionality 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 · 1848Do 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 · 394The 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 · 1963All 10 quotes →Hypocrisy and religion3 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 · 90The 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 · 1880Judging others2 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 · 90American politics1 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 · 1854Big business1 quote
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. — Milton Friedman · 1983Business1 quote
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. — Milton Friedman · 1983Crony capitalism1 quote
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. — Milton Friedman · 1983Custom and convention1 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 · 1848Evil1 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 · 1963Freedom1 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 · 1854Moral theory1 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 · 1848Morality1 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 · 1848Religion1 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 · 1880Self-righteousness1 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 · 1848Sermon on the Mount1 quote
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 · 60Sin1 quote
Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her. — Jesus · 90Slavery1 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 · 1854The Church1 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 · 1880Words vs. actions1 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