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No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.