Alexandra Adornetto Quotes

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

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

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.

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

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

a moralistic bastard.

The pleasures of moral purity are available to those who fancy themselves a small-church militant in an unconverted world.

I'm really tired of virtue.

I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous.

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

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

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

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

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others