Moral Grandstanding Quotes

People are never more sincere than when they assume their own moral superiority.

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution.

I'm not a virtue signaler.

I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality.

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.

I've been standing up against what I call the 'virtue signalling' from Justin Trudeau which actually ignores the real challenges of the day and offers symbolic gestures as a substitute.

We soothe our consciences with hashtag activism and feigned disdain for a country we’d never dream of leaving.

Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.

Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. […] Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.