Top 100 Self Righteous Quotes

#1. It is silly to call fat people 'gravitationally challenged' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

Terry Eagleton

Self Righteous Quotes #8469
#2. Raysel, you told me yourself that your father wasn't my liege anymore. I don't have to obey his wishes, spoken or unspoken, and so I can finally say this: go drown yourself, you self-righteous little bitch.

Seanan McGuire

Self Righteous Quotes #12824
#3. I love it with all of its villains and pretty liars and self-righteous pompers

N.D. Wilson

Self Righteous Quotes #17147
#4. The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting that there is much more beneath this little book. (page iii)

Michael Ben Zehabe

Self Righteous Quotes #17431
#5. The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

Mason Cooley

Self Righteous Quotes #33366
#6. Too often there is this sinister greed that pulls at my coattails, subtly whispering in the ear of my soul that it is within my rights to tuck away a few dark trinkets to toy with when the tedium of righteous living gets a bit boring. But God would suggest that I empty my pockets.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Self Righteous Quotes #48584
#7. In solitude I get rid of my scaffolding ...
Solitude molds self-righteous people into gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so deeply convinced of their own great sinfulness and so fully aware of God's even greater mercy that their life itself becomes ministry.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

Self Righteous Quotes #64834
#8. The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Self Righteous Quotes #79900
#9. Sheldon Van Auken wrote,"The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness." Guess what he said is the best argument against it? "When Christians are sombre, joyless, self-righteous, smug, narrow, repressive - Christianity dies a thousand deaths.

John Ortberg

Self Righteous Quotes #87789
#10. Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

Nick Hornby

Self Righteous Quotes #89633
#11. Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.

David Nicholls

Self Righteous Quotes #111209
#12. The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Self Righteous Quotes #112489
#13. I am thinking of the onion again ... Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

Erica Jong

Self Righteous Quotes #122589
#14. ...there are a lot of self-righteous people out there. And if you try to adjust your life to please them...you're just going to go crazy and risk being as unhappy as these self-righteous kooks are.

Ellen DeGeneres

Self Righteous Quotes #122778
#15. The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

John Foster Dulles

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#16. We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

Mignon McLaughlin

Self Righteous Quotes #130273
#17. You give Europeans once again 'all benefits that they can eat', you make them work shorter hours, and you give more money, and they'd be back in a self-congratulatory, self-righteous mode; damned be the rest of the world.

Andre Vltchek

Self Righteous Quotes #144353
#18. There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

Joe R. Lansdale

Self Righteous Quotes #156349
#19. The ongoing changes in the distribution of global power and mounting global strife make it all the more imperative that America not retreat into an ignorant garrison-state mentality or wallow in self-righteous cultural hedonism

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Self Righteous Quotes #177885
#20. The fundamental message is self-righteous, and it takes this form: 'T. S. Eliot is a homophobe and I am not. Therefore, I am a better person than Eliot.' To which the proper response is: 'But T. S. Eliot could really write, and you can't.

Ken Wilber

Self Righteous Quotes #245073
#21. Judge not, lest ye be punched in the face for being a self-righteous prick.

Jim C. Hines

Self Righteous Quotes #262250
#22. Why is it always the self-righteous pricks who turn out to be complete perverts? You know it gives the rest of us a bad name. Own your perversion, dude.

Lexi Blake

Self Righteous Quotes #268218
#23. To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.

Ron Hall

Self Righteous Quotes #307352
#24. Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling pious
and self- righteous while you starve small children!

V.C. Andrews

Self Righteous Quotes #312213
#25. A repentant criminal is better than a self-righteous judge.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Self Righteous Quotes #320001
#26. It's time to climb off our high horses and step into the shit.

Brian K. Vaughan

Self Righteous Quotes #324637
#27. It's a real smug self-righteous punk kid saying nobody has the right to tell him what to do and how dare you put a sign up saying that I can't go on your property?

Dave Barry

Self Righteous Quotes #337680
#28. Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday.

Shannon L. Alder

Self Righteous Quotes #355511
#29. We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.

John C. Danforth

Self Righteous Quotes #360255
#30. SITUATION False teachers have always blemished the church. The false teachers in the Ephesian church did not believe Jesus was really human. They contradicted Scripture while appearing to be self-disciplined and morally righteous.

Max Lucado

Self Righteous Quotes #362672
#31. That is part of why we must keep talking about Fannie Lou Hamer and about our history as a party and as a nation. We can't forget. If we forget, we can get self-righteous. We are great, but we had to grow into that greatness. Let's not forget that we shut people out.

Leah D. Daughtry

Self Righteous Quotes #366254
#32. The Republicans have a high Beady-Eyed Self-Righteous Scary Borderline Loon Quotient, as evidenced by Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Robertson, the entire state of Utah, etc.

Dave Barry

Self Righteous Quotes #397947
#33. The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

Charles L. Allen

Self Righteous Quotes #414298
#34. Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.

Alexander MacLaren

Self Righteous Quotes #419380
#35. He was an imperialistic, self-righteous pain in the ass. But he was my pain in the ass, you know? And tonight, I won't be with him. That definitely feels strange.

Chloe Neill

Self Righteous Quotes #422053
#36. Be a communicator, not a self-righteous proselytizer or preacher. Many people are only concerned with expressing themselves, which isn't necessarily communication.

Sharon Gannon

Self Righteous Quotes #422571
#37. Spare me the self-righteous indignation. I highly doubt your motives are selfless.

Jaye Wells

Self Righteous Quotes #432175
#38. Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!.

R. Alan Woods

Self Righteous Quotes #451687
#39. How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension.

Pope Clement I

Self Righteous Quotes #452000
#40. ...at times you can be more self-righteous than a cart-load of parsons.

James Aldridge

Self Righteous Quotes #468988
#41. [Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate itself for on its own front page.

Jay Carr

Self Righteous Quotes #469085
#42. Americans like what is easy, and it's easy to like pregnant women - they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs. Still, it baffles me that these self-righteous, self-enthralled waddlers get such special treatment. As if it's so hard to spread your legs and let a man ejaculate between them.

Gillian Flynn

Self Righteous Quotes #471504
#43. They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.

Chuck Palahniuk

Self Righteous Quotes #485611
#44. Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against Christianity? Also Christians, when they become exclusive, self-righteous, and complacent.

John Ortberg

Self Righteous Quotes #493567
#45. The righteous shall blossom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Self Righteous Quotes #497567
#46. Self-righteous wrath had planted more corpses in the ground than an empire could lay claim to,

Steven Erikson

Self Righteous Quotes #523373
#47. I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

Bette Midler

Self Righteous Quotes #527755
#48. Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

Criss Jami

Self Righteous Quotes #531027
#49. Explain it to me. God says he loves me but dumps me into a world of pain. You, so full of hate, so ignorant, he leaves alone. Self-righteous bigots he doesn't even touch. Explain that to me!

Greg Bear

Self Righteous Quotes #549385
#50. deal with self-righteous prosecutors who lie, cheat, stonewall, cover up, ignore ethics, and do whatever it takes to get a conviction, even when they know the truth and the truth tells them they are wrong.

John Grisham

Self Righteous Quotes #561736
#51. The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard.

Shannon L. Alder

Self Righteous Quotes #565500
#52. Normality may lie in being a selectively deaf self-righteous victim of your own cognitive dissonance...but then again...who wants to be an open minded but self-doubting fence-sitter paralyzed by internal conflict? life eh?

Tweedy Peanut

Self Righteous Quotes #567024
#53. Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.

John Dewey

Self Righteous Quotes #597116
#54. Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Self Righteous Quotes #620729
#55. Ruth tells me at least once a day that old people, or people getting old, tend to disengage, back away, turn inward, listen only to themselves, and get self-righteous and censorious. And they mustn't. (I mustn't.)

Wallace Stegner

Self Righteous Quotes #628705
#56. And do you not think less of me for making my fortune in
such a way?" After all, her own sister did.
He gave her an odd look. "There is no shame in being the
mistress of a king. It's a position of great power and influence. I think less of Louis for letting you go.

Jenna Maclaine

Self Righteous Quotes #650368
#57. Sophie Kruger had worked in a house herself, up in Middle Swan. But now she pretended she was quality. There were none so self-righteous as those who rewrote their past.

Sandra Dallas

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#58. There is grace for the unrighteous and the self-righteous alike, and the father loves both sons well.

Justin Buzzard

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#59. Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

Steven Morrissey

Self Righteous Quotes #711057
#60. Headmistress. Whatever. She's still a self-righteous old bit -

Richelle Mead

Self Righteous Quotes #712334
#61. Perplexity isn't as noble as conviction, but perhaps more good is done in the name of muddling through uncertainty than is done hacking away with the righteous sword of self-confidence.

Gregory Maguire

Self Righteous Quotes #724542
#62. Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

C.S. Lewis

Self Righteous Quotes #724625
#63. It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.

Wilkie Collins

Self Righteous Quotes #724741
#64. I hope that your plane crashes over the ocean and piranhas eat your balls. It was lovely meeting you, you self-righteous egoistical son of a bitch. I can see where Joey gets his psychotic behavior.

L.P. Maxa

Self Righteous Quotes #741451
#65. I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.

Thomas J. Paprocki

Self Righteous Quotes #746242
#66. Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

Paul David Tripp

Self Righteous Quotes #788214
#67. These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having power over them. Persecutors may act grandiose and self-righteous to mask their own insecurity.

David Emerald Womeldorff

Self Righteous Quotes #805539
#68. To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Self Righteous Quotes #814378
#69. I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.

Billy Crudup

Self Righteous Quotes #815211
#70. The world I live in is composing a magnum opus to the heart-stopping, outrageously unbelievable unconditional love and acceptance of God that crushes and demolishes the vestiges of self-righteous "us and them." It's

Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter

Self Righteous Quotes #840381
#71. 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.

Robert Dallek

Self Righteous Quotes #852224
#72. Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.

Shannon L. Alder

Self Righteous Quotes #857612
#73. Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this.

Huldrych Zwingli

Self Righteous Quotes #863814
#74. Anger is seldom a useful emotion, and the more self-righteous the anger, the less useful it is.

James P. Blaylock

Self Righteous Quotes #867686
#75. A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

C.S. Lewis

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#76. God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Unless you humble yourself before Him in the dust, and confess before Him your iniquities and sins, the gate of heaven, which is open only for sinners, saved by grace, must be shut against you forever.

Dwight L. Moody

Self Righteous Quotes #882143
#77. There is no deeper pathos in the spiritual life of man than the cruelty of righteous people. If any one idea dominates the teachings of Jesus, it is his opposition to the self-righteousness of the righteous.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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#78. I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

Annie Baker

Self Righteous Quotes #905908
#79. Elsewhere I've written that Jesus came not only for those who skip morning meditations, but also for real sinners, thieves, adulterers, and terrorists, for those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams. I HAVE COME TO CALL NOT THE SELF-RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS. (MATT. 9:13)

Brennan Manning

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#80. Life isn't like the movies. People don't change overnight. people don't go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don't suddenly give in when they've spent years taking out. No doesn't magically become a Yes.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Self Righteous Quotes #918365
#81. At sixteen, he was inclined to be rather priggish and self-righteous. Not such bad qualities in adolescence after all, since most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

Vera Brittain

Self Righteous Quotes #924397
#82. I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

Norman Mailer

Self Righteous Quotes #927819
#83. We can love and do righteous acts only by grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Self Righteous Quotes #949354
#84. For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

Criss Jami

Self Righteous Quotes #951086
#85. Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.

A.S. Byatt

Self Righteous Quotes #952129
#86. Has anyone ever told you, you are the most despicable, judgmental, self-righteous, obnoxious fuckwit that ever existed?

Samantha Young

Self Righteous Quotes #961113
#87. Self-righteous and entitled but they swearin' on the bible that they love you when really they no different from your rivals.

Nicki Minaj

Self Righteous Quotes #977797
#88. I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.

Shannon L. Alder

Self Righteous Quotes #984536
#89. We, as Americans, at least - I mean, I love my country - but we're so self-righteous sometimes, in terms of, like, our nationality, our country. But we're people from somewhere else; the true 'Americans' are the original peoples. It's funny, but we're a very territorial species.

Peter Dinklage

Self Righteous Quotes #1029047
#90. The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.

Stephen L. Carter

Self Righteous Quotes #1051280
#91. He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself, and fling the curses on his neighbours.

Emily Bronte

Self Righteous Quotes #1052545
#92. The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

Leonard Ravenhill

Self Righteous Quotes #1054518
#93. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

Timothy Keller

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#94. Heaven has no room for the self-righteous.

C. Robert Cargill

Self Righteous Quotes #1070942
#95. I find violently left-wing people just as irritating and self-righteous as right-wing types.

Stefan Mohamed

Self Righteous Quotes #1072366
#96. Each additional day together is a gift. The end of the day means the end of hostilities, the recognition that the underlying shared values and commitment to the relationship trump the need for one last dig or self-righteous justification.

Daniel Kahneman

Self Righteous Quotes #1080804
#97. The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

Sheri S. Tepper

Self Righteous Quotes #1084163
#98. Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

David Brin

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#99. I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

Caitlin Moran

Self Righteous Quotes #1127666
#100. I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.

Fred Frith

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