Peter Kreeft Quotes

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Be a hypocrite if you like, but don't talk like one.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

I am not honest.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.

Why do you not practice what you preach.

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Patriotism is seen not only the last refuge of the scoundrel bus as the first bolt-hole of the hypocrite.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

As to you, sir, treacherous in private friendship and … a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an imposter, whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

To give this activity [the Bay of Pigs] even covert support is of a piece with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world-nor on our own consciences