Quotes About Hypocrisy In Politics

#1. In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

Hannah Arendt

#2. The American people are fed up ... with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.

James Taranto

#3. 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.

Arundhati Roy

#4. For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Noam Chomsky

#5. Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

Vladimir Lenin

#6. Princes give rewards with their own hands,
But death or punishment by the hands of other.

John Webster

#7. Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move people to try to change the reality towards the values.

Justin Podur

#8. In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from service during his draft-eligible years.

Charlie Savage

#9. I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love with me. I don't think he did.

Florence Welch

#10. You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!
What has your politics fed on
since you've been ruling the world?
On butchery and murder!

Charles De Coster

#11. Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

Mark McKinnon

#12. A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#13. When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

Ryne Sandberg

#14. Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#15. The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.

Jeffrey Toobin

#16. Madame Defarge immediately called to her husband that she would get them, and went, knitting, out of the lamplight, through the courtyard

Charles Dickens

#17. One of the most effective ways for a system of authority to tout its virtues is not to speak of them directly, but to create a particularly vivid image of their absolute negation - of what it claims life would be like in the total absence of, say, patriarchal authority, or capitalism, or the state.

David Graeber

#18. What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It's having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

Bob Barr

#19. A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Russell Baker

#20. 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

#21. To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Aristophanes

#22. The history of the world is but a biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

#23. The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.

Mark Haskell Smith

#24. The United States is now harbouring Luis Posada Carriles. His continued freedom mocks victims of terrorism everywhere. It also shows how heavily the 'war on terror' is overlaid with politics and hypocrisy.

Stephen Kinzer

#25. There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it.

Melody Beattie

#26. No president likes leaks, but it's worth noting candidate Trump's path to power was tread on a road of leaks. He didn't have a problem with leaks then. It's not a moral position if you only hold it when it applies to you.

Jake Tapper

#27. The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart - idea of thing, reality of thing - the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.

Jamaica Kincaid

#28. As children we are taught, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!" As adults we teach those same words to our own children while simultaneously we sue one another for defamation or verbal assault. Ah, the naked leading the blind.

Bryan Oftedahl

#29. There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.

Raheel Farooq

#31. The only person I wanted was Susannah. She was the only one.

Jenny Han

#32. The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

Max Stirner

#33. We need democracy and meritocracy, not mockracy and hypocrisy.

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