Charlie Baker Quotes

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

We are living in a sanctimonious age.

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.

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

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

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

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.

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

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

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

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

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

I don't like affectation.

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.

Canting hypocrisy

The dream of diversity is like the dream of equality. Both are based on ideals we celebrate even as we undermine them daily.

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

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

I can't stand fake people. I can feel it when someone feigns it.

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

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.