Morally Superior Quotes

#1. While opposing injustice nonviolently, he (Gandhi) insisted, is always morally superior to opposing it violently, opposing injustice violently is still morally superior to doing nothing to oppose it at all.

David Graeber

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

Sienna Miller

#3. When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

Philipp Meyer

#4. Er, she hated it when she was trying to be morally superior and someone pointed out that her idea was only slightly less sketchy.

Lindsay Buroker

#5. The victim is always morally superior to the master; that is the victim's ambivalent triumph. That is why there have been so few notoriously wicked women in comparison to the number of notoriously wicked men; our victim status ensures that we rarely have the opportunity.

Angela Carter

#6. The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

David O. Russell

#7. This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

Dinesh D'Souza

#8. If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.

David Brooks

#9. Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to 'progressive' values is morally acceptable, even demanded.

Dennis Prager

#10. It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

Elbert Hubbard

#11. Those who rise first are morally superior. It's a universal law.

O.R. Melling

#12. just because you haven't had the opportunity to follow through on what you'd like to do, you're not morally superior to someone who has had that opportunity.

Brant Hansen

#13. Ironically, moral relativists often even pride themselves on being morally superior to others.

Nancy Pearcey

#14. There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.

Al Franken

#15. A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

John Howard

#16. Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.

Paul Singer

#17. What is human life? Is it not a maimed happiness - care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation...of a brighter tomorrow?

Ernest Renan

#18. Some mysteries are meant to stay that way.

Truth Devour

#19. Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

Hans Morgenthau

#20. I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.

Gary Hamel

#21. Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.

Geoffrey Rush

#22. Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

Todd Solondz

#23. The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe. Fads are orderly. Food carts and fires aren't. Feeding the world could be a delicious mess, full of diverse flavors and sometimes good old-fashioned smoke.

Tyler Cowen

#24. Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#25. This is my skin. It keeps out the rain and words I'd rather not hear like "I'm tired" or "I'm fine" or "We need to talk."
This is my skin and it's thick. This is not your skin. Yet you are still under it.

Iain S. Thomas

#26. The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

Flea