Moral Superiority Quotes

• El hecho de que el hombre distinga el bien del mal prueba su superioridad intelectual respecto a las demás criaturas; pero el hecho de que pueda obrar mal prueba su inferioridad moral respecto a las criaturas que no pueden hacerlo.

  Mark Twain

  Recuperación, Animal, Inteligente

  Mark Twain (2009). "Mark Twain's Book of Animals", p.264, Univ of California Press

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• The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Compassion, Temptation, Moral

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• All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

  Doris Lessing

  Party, Reality, People

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• Cuando la superioridad moral se combina con la ignorancia, llenan un globo de aire caliente que es muy difícil no pinchar.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Ignorance, Air, Hot

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.223, Faber & Faber

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• In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze the spiritual force... Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a saint and maintain a critical attitude.

  Oswald Chambers

  Love, Spiritual, Attitude

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• Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

  Mary Douglas

  Moral, Pretension, Destructive

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• It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.

  C. L. R. James

  People, Deception, Sacred

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• Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Giving, Feelings

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.60, Basic Books

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• The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  War, Winning, Tyrants

  Samuel P. Huntington (1997). “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• Normalmente no soporto a la gente sin vicios. Confunden un instinto narcisista de autoconservación con la superioridad moral. Además, le quitan la vida a una fiesta.

  Dennis Lehane

  Party, Self, People

  "Moonlight Mile". Book by Dennis Lehane, November 2, 2010.

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• Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

  Jeff Smith

  People, Safe, Moral

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• Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Gossip, People, Giving

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.60, Basic Books

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• La humildad es la esencia del arrepentimiento. La humildad es desinteresada, no egoísta. No exige las cosas a su manera ni habla con superioridad moral. La humildad reconoce que nadie puede cambiar a otra persona, pero con fe, esfuerzo y la ayuda de Dios, podemos experimentar nuestro propio y poderoso cambio de corazón.

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Egoísmo, Humildad, Corazón

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• But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  People, Moral, Defeat

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• Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.

  George Mikes

  Funny, War, Museums

  George Mikes (1970). “The land of the rising yen: Japan”, Harvard Common Press

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• Although God's people find many successes in the world, they must not fall prey to a spirit of pride. We succeed not because of our moral superiority but because of the faithfulness of our divine intercessor and because of the great mercy of God.

  Max Anders

  Fall, Pride, Mercy Of God

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• The terrorism of the suicide bomber and the terrorism of aerial bombardment are indeed morally equivalent. To say otherwise (as either side might) is to give one moral superiority over the other, and thus serve to perpetuate the horrors of our time.

  Howard Zinn

  Suicide, Giving, Bombers

  "Letters: On Terror", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 2007.

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• Entonces es un monstruo", cacareó Prince, "y debo matarlo de inmediato. La fórmula funciona". "Tu Fórmula debe dar lugar a una gran cantidad de combates", reflexioné. "¡Oh, sí, cuando se aplica correctamente se producen batallas poderosas y nobles! Por supuesto, siempre gano: el valor de Prince X es una constante. No puede ser menor que el del Monstruo Y: ésta es la Hipótesis de la Superioridad Moral que hizo famosa hace quinientos años mi antepasado Ethelred, el Rey Matemático. Nunca hemos visto su igual, en todos estos siglos.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Reyes, Lucha, Ganar

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