J. K. Rowling Quotes

Showing your own righteousness by pointing out someone's unrighteousness, the race to the bottom, the transgressions getting smaller and smaller and smaller but still treated with the same level of intolerance and condemnation, all of that stuff, even as I say it I am talking about Twitter but I am thinking about Westboro.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.

"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

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.

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

I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.

How dare you put yourself in that position where you are the moral judge?

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.

It's time to wake up to the reality that ignoring the genuine concerns of the 'fringe,' until it becomes the majority, is patently ridiculous. That the scapegoating of alternative opinions doesn't work.

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.

There's this tendency to be held in great esteem if you are judgmental. A sort of moral policing, being opinionated. What right has one to act like judges? What right has one to police another?

In the E.U., there are always morally superior people who think they have to educate the others.

Churchgoers feel righteous, responsible, and obedient to God's will. They view anyone unlike themselves as devoid of values, and therefore unworthy of God's love. By denying God to all those who have strayed from the path of righteousness, the devout are unwittingly taking on themselves a role that belongs only to God.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.