Roxane Gay Quotes

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

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.

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

Nobody likes to be preached to.

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!

One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets.

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

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.

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.

For people who never tire of telling the world what a moral high ground they've taken in opposing Donald Trump, they sure don't seem to mind offering up a bellyful of gloats and taunts.

The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

For the most part, I don't like people who soapbox.

I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

I'm not going to be lectured to.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

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

The contempt of that large-minded gentleman is so wilting: his haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering turkey-gobbler strut has been so crushing to myself and all the members of this House.

Practically every time I speak up at a school conference, a political event, or my apartment building association's annual meeting, I'm met with a display of someone else's superior intelligence.

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.

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