The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority. — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“In the middle of a night, hunched over my computer, with the rest of the house dark and quiet, I feel a… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a mainstream conservative who wants to profoundly take on the left. The left is infuriated that anybody would challenge… — John S. Dickerson Copy Share Image
“She hated self-righteousness and pretensions of moral superiority and impressed on my brothers and me that we were no better or worse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People shouldn't sit there and allow their moral superiority in their heads - because you really aren't morally superior to anyone, although… — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Thinking about the sins of others give us a feeling of moral superiority. But thinking about our own sins is a humbling… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The terrorism of the suicide bomber and the terrorism of aerial bombardment are indeed morally equivalent. To say otherwise (as either side… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“If the counsel of the peaceniks had been followed, Kuwait would today be the nineteenth province of Iraq. Bosnia would be a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you. And if they can instill that sense of… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I took the test for AIDS. I began to hate people who were not sick. Those people are monsters, I would think,… — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!'… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Eventually my rejection of authority spilled into self-indulgence and self-destructiveness, and by the time I enrolled in college, I'd begun to see… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Leaves of Ash (Divine Violence, Sonnet) You know why the West makes such a song and dance about nonviolence, because when your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The myth of Christian martyrdom and persecution needs to be corrected, because it has left us with a dangerous legacy that poisons… — Candida Moss Copy Share Image
Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“New perspectivists (who aren’t all the same, of course) often comment on how Philippians 3 fits with their paradigm. And they are… — Thomas R. Schreiner Copy Share Image
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you say that something is technically correct, you are suggesting that it is wrong – the adverb before “correct” implies a… — Moira Weigel Copy Share Image
“First, we need to take stock of ourselves and give up any hint of moral superiority and judgment toward the addict. Judging… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“For envy makes no claim whatsoever about the moral superiority of the envier, or about the “goodness” of his or her state… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
“This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you.” — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Once again, claims of moral superiority are used to justify extreme actions. Once again, the fact that some people are hurt is… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
It's easy for us to congratulate ourselves on our own moral superiority when compared to the 1930s, but I'm not sure that… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Although God's people find many successes in the world, they must not fall prey to a spirit of pride. We succeed not… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
“When we disown parts of ourself, we tend to judge others who display those same qualities. We lay claim to moral superiority.… — Frank Ostaseski Copy Share Image
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
“It is vital that we avoid any hint of moral superiority in our dealings with one another in the environmental movement; if… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“According to Jerome, Mary laid the foundations of virginity for both sexes, and the moral superiority of virginity becomes clear in her… — Uta Ranke-Heinemann Copy Share Image
“You know why the West makes such a song and dance about nonviolence, because when your entire empire is built on systemic… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
