Sri Aurobindo Quotes

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.

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

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!

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

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

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

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.

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

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

He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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

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.

I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

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

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.