Howard Dean Quotes

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

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

We have a Sunday code and a weekday code. We preach good and practice evil. We clothe the wolf of our actions in the sheep's clothing of our beautiful phrases.

Hypocrisy is the universal solvent of social relations.

Public displays of puritanical religiosity mask the private perversions of the real Washington behind closed doors.

Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.

I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

The best of women are hypocrites.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

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.

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.

And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.

Canting hypocrisy

Democrats make up plans and then do something else. Republicans follow the plans their grandfathers made.... Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first.