So Connor stands there with secret anticipation each time there's a group of new arrivals, hoping beyond hope he'll find that self-righteous, self-important, pain-in-the-ass Lev still alive.
Quotes about self-righteous (15 Quotes)
He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.
Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
Christianity has not produced a single person who has lived a life according to the Bible, not even one. Christianity has not produced a single person like the Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, not even one. One of the best examples of a damn Christian hypocrite was J. Edgar Hoover. This self-righteous bigot sat in his FBI office persecuting gays during the day and slept with his lover, Clyde Tolson at night.
After seven years it's clear the Clinton Administration has yet to find the right formula of dealing with rogue nations, ... Sanctions have become the feel-good policy of the self-righteous.
If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right.
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.