103 Quotes About Self-righteousness



  • Author George MacDonald Fraser
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    I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.

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  • Author Rebecca Makkai
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    If there was a common thread between the great warriors and runaways of my Hulkinov ancestors, and my father the pathological expatriate, and me, it was just that: hotheaded self-righteousness. And not the bad kind, either. We actually were right. We just cared more about being right than doing what was right. And we cared more about being right than about our own lives.

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  • Author Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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    It is far better to be seen by others as a sinner and plead fervently to Christ for salvation than to be regarded as a pious one and miss salvation! It is far better to be seen by others as wrong and seek to do what is right, than to be regarded as right when in reality, you might be heading towards a ditch!

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