Moral Superiority Quotes

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.

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

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

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

'Bloody do-gooders' is my expression for people who are nicer than me, who are better than me.

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

In practice, conservatives are no less inclined than liberals to adopt superior stances or to tell people how to live their lives.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

Donald Trump is a mainstream conservative who wants to profoundly take on the left. The left is infuriated that anybody would challenge the legitimacy of their moral superiority. And so the left goes hysterical.

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

Conscription would amount to the sacrifice of nine-tenths of our moral case in this war. It would not only amount to an admission—wholly unjustified—that the heart of the country is not in the war…. It will change the basis of our participation. It will no longer be the war of the British people; it will be the war of the British governing classes.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

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

Women are human beings, and human beings are a very mixed lot. I've always been against the idea that women were Victorian angels, that they could do no wrong. I've always thought it was horseshit and does nobody any good. Remember, Lizzie Borden got off largely because the cultural agenda had convinced people that women were morally superior to men, so Lizzie Borden was "incapable" of taking the ax and giving her mother 40 whacks.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.