Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

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

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

a moralistic bastard.

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.

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.

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Self-righteousness is unavoidable. You can either be a self-righteous Pharisee where you think you are better than everyone else or you can be a self-righteous pagan who thinks you are better than the Pharisee. If you are a self-righteous person, I could become very self-righteous thinking that you're self-righteous and you think you're so good but I know you're bad. I know I'm bad so that makes me better than you.

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

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

Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible. I don't know how some people are able to disassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from their religious obligations and convictions, but many are able to do that.

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

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

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.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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

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.

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

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.

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

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

Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.