Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob
- Oscar WildeThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
- Oscar WildeEvery man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
- Simone de BeauvoirHypocrisy: prejudice with a halo
- Ambrose BierceThe true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity
- Andre GideHypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing
- Edmund BurkeHypocrisy 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
- Leo Nikolaevich TolstoyHypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion
- Mahatma GandhiCorruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today
- Mahatma GandhiMathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
- Stendhal