John Leo Quotes

I fully embrace myself as a hypocrite.

A little hypocrisy is better than losing.

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

The rankest form of hypocrisy. Laws that are good enough for everybody else ought to be good enough for us.

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.

Men condemne the same things in others, which they approve in themselves; on the other side, they publickly commend what they privately condemne;

Words mean nothing to liberals. They say whatever will help advance their cause at the moment, switch talking points in a heartbeat, and then act indignant if anyone uses the exact same argument they were using five minutes ago.

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

In principle, I am against principles.

... gross, barefaced inconsistency.

Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

No party can command respect which sustains this year what it opposed last.

Hypocrisy is a fearful evil, and every thing which has a tendency to produce it should be avoided.

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

We suppose mankind more honest than they are.

She tells a lot of lies, this daughter of mine ... She talks a lot about democracy, but she's become a little dictator.

One clings to principles for only as long as they are not put to the test. When that happens one throws them away as the peasant does his slippers.

Indifference to Reality. All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by ‘our’ side.

I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.

In India, we say one thing, and we do something else.

Establishment, career politicians are about saying one thing and doing another.

I just don't like when you preach one thing and do something else.

Sometimes the manager says one thing and does another thing!