Self-Righteous Quotes

The whole world is out of step, apart from me.

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

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

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.

The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was to those whom society considered real sinners. They had done nothing to merit salvation. Yet they opened themselves to the gift that was offered them. On the other hand, the self-righteous placed their trust in the works of the Law and closed their hearts to the message of grace.

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

To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.

Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.

The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

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

It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

a moralistic bastard.

Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

We must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side?

If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

Clinton's egregious act of self-indulgence was outdone by an impeachment based not on constitutionally required high crimes and misdemeanors but on a vindictive determination to bring down a president who had offended self-righteous moralists eager to put a different political agenda in place.

I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.

Joe Lieberman can be cloying and sanctimonious.

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