Self Righteous Quotes
92 Self Righteous quotes by 76 unique authors
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Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of…
— Criss Jami
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There is fascism , leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders,and self-righteous brutality,…
— E. M. Forster
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It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people…
— Penn Jillette
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I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
— Bette Midler
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Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel…
— Dave Van Ronk
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The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
— Charles Spurgeon
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
— Caitlin Moran
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Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought…
— David James Duncan
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Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are…
— C.S. Lewis
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Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing…
— Neal Stephenson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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[D]on’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
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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
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Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in…
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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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
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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
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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
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Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint or you’re psychotic.…
— William T. Vollmann
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Self Righteous Quotes
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