Self Righteous Quotes

92 quotes by 76 authors

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor. — Emily Bronte
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good… — Karen Armstrong
I shall pray to God to send charity to this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I… — John Wyndham
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic. — Nick Hornby
He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against… — John Irving
...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she… — David Nicholls
[D]onâ€™t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the… — Stephen Levine
The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was to those whom… — Brennan Manning
Life isnâ€™t like the movies. People donâ€™t change overnight. people donâ€™t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They donâ€™t suddenly give in… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least… — Sarah Dunn
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I… — Brennan Manning
I don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles. — Suzanne Collins
Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say â€œgirlâ€? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, youâ€™re a saint or youâ€™re psychotic.… — William T. Vollmann
There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots.… — J. William Fulbright
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions… — Rupert Sheldrake
In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry,… — William S. Burroughs
I said, I'm done with all of my fake friends Self-righteous pawns in a losing game — ProudLesbian
Pills and potions We're overdosing I'm angry but I still love you Pills and potions We're overdosing Can't stand it but I still love you… — Nicki Minaj
I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly… — Fred Frith
So goddamn easy to write this, You make it spill on the page. So drunk on yourself, self-righteous, The laughing stock of your own fucking… — Lamb Of God

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