Judgmental Attitudes Quotes

The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.

We're a very judgmental society.

People want to call me weird, 'cringey.'

People who don't know me are so negative about me. When they finally meet me, they change that negative into a positive.

It's kind of disappointing and disgusting in a way, how some people are focusing on how we look.

It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you

Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.

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.

When I was first pregnant, which was, let's see, in nineteen-eighty-three - I remember wearing a regular bathing suit to my in-laws' pool. It was just like a spandex one-piece, completely modest, and yet people were looking at me like it was obscene.

The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to fallen televangelists but to each of us. We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others. They are to be taken personally by each of us. This is the form and shape of Christian Pharisaism in our time. Hypocrisy is not hte prerogative of people in high places. The most impoverished among us is capable of it. Hypocrisy is the natural expression of what is meanest in us all.

God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.

I think most people, including me, like to read gossipy things about others: revealing things that I love to read but I don't really want known about me.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

Why the heck do we allow the media to ever tell us someone is gross? It makes me so mad. 99% of the world has flaws.

Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.