Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice pays to virtue.

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

The universal hypocrisy has so entered into the flesh and blood of all classes of our modern society, it has reached such a pitch that nothing in that way can rouse indignation. Hypocrisy in the Greek means "acting," and acting—playing a part—is always possible.

— Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Hypocrisy is a game of pretense. It's a lack of honesty. Clearly, Jesus did not abide hypocrites. He expects honesty. He expects straightforwardness, and he expects us to be humble about it all.

The modern hypocrite gives the designation "respect" to what is nothing but fear of the powerful.

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

The moral attitudes of dominant and privileged groups are characterised by universal selfdeception and hypocrisy. The unconscious and conscious identification of their special interests with general interests and universal values, which we have noted in analysing national attitudes, is equally obvious in the attitude of classes. The reason why privileged classes are more hypocritical than underprivileged ones is that special privilege can be defended in terms of the rational ideal of equal justice only, by proving that it contributes something to the good of the whole. Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.