Character Quote by Mary Douglas

But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

— David O. Russell

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.

— Albert Bandura

“Once again, claims of moral superiority are used to justify extreme actions. Once again, the fact that some people are hurt is shrugged off…

— Michael Crichton

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

— Aristotle

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust…

— Steven Pinker

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

— Julian Baggini

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under…

— Erich Fromm

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel…

— Timothy Keller

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.…

— Albert Bandura

The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the…

— Ronald Fisher

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister…

— Bertrand Russell