Sebastian Kurz Quotes

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

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

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

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.

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

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

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

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

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.

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

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

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

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

When a person tells others "Be good," he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.

Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.

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

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

The suggestion that liberals aren't moralizers is so preposterous it makes it hard for me to take any of them seriously when they wax indignant about "moralizers." Almost every day, they tell us what is moral or immoral to think and to say about race, taxes, abortion - you name it. They explain it would be immoral for me to spend more of my own money on my own children when that money could be spent by government on other people's children. In short, they think moralizing is fine. They just want to have a monopoly on the franchise.

The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.

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

The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.

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.