Pat Robertson Quotes

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.

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.

The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.

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!

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

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or care. There is, admittedly, also a smugness to most open letters: a sense that we, as the writers of such letters, know better than those to whom the letters are addressed. We will impart our opinions to you, with or without your consent.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

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

Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.

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

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

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct.

Like power in any shape, a full stomach always holds a dose of insolence, and this expresses itself first of all in the well-fed lecturing the starving.

a moralistic bastard.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Demagoguery from the pulpit is no different from demagoguery on the campaign trail. If anything, it is worse, because it clothes itself in self-righteousness.

We are all hypocrites but introspective people use this insight to moderate their self-righteousness. There’s an inverse relationship between introspection and intolerance.

I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives.