Dallas Willard Quotes

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

I abhor hypocrisy.

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

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

Oh Lord. Deliver us from the hypocrisy of talking to sound reasonable while not being reasonable.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.

How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

I'm not honest, but you're interesting!

Everybody is full of crap. The coin of the realm is being full of crap. The best people - being full of crap are our leaders and our superstars.

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.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears