Henry Rollins Quotes

Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

Self-righteousness is unavoidable. You can either be a self-righteous Pharisee where you think you are better than everyone else or you can be a self-righteous pagan who thinks you are better than the Pharisee. If you are a self-righteous person, I could become very self-righteous thinking that you're self-righteous and you think you're so good but I know you're bad. I know I'm bad so that makes me better than you.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.

Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

How dare you put yourself in that position where you are the moral judge?

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.

Showing your own righteousness by pointing out someone's unrighteousness, the race to the bottom, the transgressions getting smaller and smaller and smaller but still treated with the same level of intolerance and condemnation, all of that stuff, even as I say it I am talking about Twitter but I am thinking about Westboro.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.