Lauren Mayberry

People have said it's hypocritical for me to call myself a feminist and make the kind of music we are making, because we signed to a major in the U.K., and that system objectifies women. Or people have complained that I don't dance. But I like the idea that I can stomp around the stage if I want.

Scottish Musician

Ben Shapiro

Google is a private company. It has the capacity to utilize its massive power for whatever political agenda it chooses. But for it to pretend to be an advocate for Internet freedom while simultaneously disadvantaging messages it finds politically incorrect is deeply hypocritical.

American Author

Alex Honnold

So many people condemn me for risk taking, but I find it sort of hypocritical because everybody takes risks. Even the absence of activity could be viewed as a risk. If you sit on the sofa for your entire life, you're running a higher risk of getting heart disease and cancer.

American Athlete

Theo Epstein

It's hypocritical to say when things are going well, 'Interview me. Ask me how great I am. Ask me about family and personal life.' At some point later, when someone wants information and you want to draw the line, how do you do that?

American Businessman

Yolanda King

My friends... feel there are not that many people they can really look up to. They feel people are so hypocritical and fake... But I do have some people I respect, a great number of people, and I'm sure my friends have.

American Activist

P. J. O'Rourke

Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.

American Comedian

Mike Cernovich

The only difference between me and my critics is that I don't lie to the world about who I am. People are complicated and often seemingly hypocritical. Embrace the diversity of your mind.

American Writer

Frank Lloyd Wright

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

American Architect

Brandi Glanville

It's incredibly hypocritical of Eddie to object to filming around my children, especially given how public he lives his life.

American Celebrity

Niccolo Machiavelli

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Italian Writer

Understand the contradiction between someone's words and their actions to spot hypocrisy.

Identifying Hypocrisy

Recognize that being called hypocritical is often seen as a strong criticism in many cultures.

Cultural Perception

Acknowledge the emotional impact; calling someone hypocritical can cause offense or defensiveness.

Emotional Weight

Realize that people might be hypocritical without intending to, due to lack of self-awareness.

Self-Awareness

Understand that calling out hypocrisy can be valid criticism but also can be perceived as a personal attack.

Critique vs. Insult

Keep in mind that accusations of being hypocritical can sometimes stem from unconscious bias.

Unconscious Bias

 experience with the United Nations we have no illusions about its six-decade failure to respond to the needs and rights of women we know that the Secretariat and most of the agencies have a record on gender that is both abject and hypocritical in the extreme we know that the Security Council

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 animals we raise each year for meat are raised in factory farm conditions that we, hypocritically, wouldn't even consider for our own cats, dogs and other pets. Environmentally, meat, amazingly, causes more emissions

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 animals we raise each year for meat are raising factory farm conditions that we hypocritically wouldn't even consider for our own cats dogs and other pets environmentally meat amazingly causes

 two broken back legs and continues on without the same outcry human beings by nature myself included can be very hypocritical here we fine I'm not worried we'll keep a close eye

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