David Shields Quotes

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

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

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

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

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

For people who never tire of telling the world what a moral high ground they've taken in opposing Donald Trump, they sure don't seem to mind offering up a bellyful of gloats and taunts.

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

I do not believe in hypocrisy.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.