Virtue Signaling Quotes

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

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Editing is agonizing, fretting over facts; it’s not virtue-signaling or confusing the ephemeral with the eternal. Unless we can tell the difference between the meaningful and the meaningless, the material and the immaterial, we will be lost in illogic.

What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a reason, it gives them a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.

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

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

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

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

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

I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not excuse inconsistencies, because the inconsistent brother has a high name and a fervent spirit; crookedness and worldliness are still crookedness and worldliness, though exhibited in one who seems to have reached no common height of attainment.

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.

The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.

Let a man rise to power, and he has as many virtues as will furnish an epitaph. Let him fall from power, and he has more vices than the Prodigal Son.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

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