Moral Superiority Quotes
- Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. — Jonathan Haidt
- The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority. — Stephen Batchelor
- It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his… — C L R James
- Humility is the essence of repentance. Humility is selfless, not selfish. It doesn't demand its own way or speak with moral superiority. Instead, humility answers softly and listens… — L. Whitney Clayton
- Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know… — George Mikes
- Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive. — Mary Douglas
- When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. — Barbara Kingsolver
- 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 a certain unassailable… — Jeff Smith
- ...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 out of a… — Dennis Lehane
- Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result in a great… — Catherynne M. Valente