Erich Fromm Quotes

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

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

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

These are the meats to abstain from- others' wealth, others' wives, slander, envy, covetousness and pride.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

For those of us on this planet who have never done wrong and are always right and are just down right 100% perfect all the time, life can be hard.

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

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

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

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

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

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.