Top 25 Political Hypocrisy Quotes
#1. When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty.
Shannon L. Alder
#2. Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.
Raheel Farooq
#3. Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.
Dave Pelzer
#4. I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.
Conor McPherson
#5. We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.
Evgeny Morozov
#6. One commonly hears that carping critics complain about what is wrong, but do not present solutions. There is an accurate translation for that charge: 'They present solutions, but I don't like them.
Noam Chomsky
#7. Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.
Reuben Fine
#8. I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!
Dalai Lama
#9. I think the whole obsession with old gear is completely overblown. You don't need old-fashioned gear to make a great-sounding record. You don't even need [analog] tape.
Tony Visconti
#10. It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, hypocrisy, and callous indifference to those in need.
Arianna Huffington
#12. A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.
Colin Quinn
#13. It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt
Thomas Paine
#14. It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense
Philip K. Dick
#15. Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.
Charles R. Swindoll
#16. The American people are fed up ... with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.
James Taranto
#17. Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.
Michael Arrington
#18. I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
Alberto Manguel
#19. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
William Blum
#20. There may be obstacles, but money is not one," the Iranian said.
"Good. Money is usually an obstacle if you don't have it.
Sebastian Rotella
#21. Not that he had anything against belief. People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people. The
Terry Pratchett
#22. 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.
Jonathan Shapiro
#23. Discretion is a polite word for hypocrisy.
Tea Party Teddy
Dianne Harman
#25. I've never really liked the Yanks ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.
Terry Pratchett