Top 40 Self-Righteous Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Self-Righteous Quotes from famous people such as Robert Dallek, Zoe Bell, Ainsley Earhardt, James Carville, Penn Jillette, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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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
It turns out I do okay just playing an angry self-righteous woman.
Zoe Bell
I don’t want to sound self-righteous, and I don’t want to act like I have it all put together.
Ainsley Earhardt
I’ve had enough of the blowhards on cable TV and the self-righteous anger I hear from people whose only accomplishment in life is their ability to turn the dial on an AM radio.
James Carville
It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
Penn Jillette
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
The self-righteous supporters of mass immigration think the rest of us are stupid and evil.
Peter Hitchens
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
You cannot cave in saying something that is against your conscience and belief. That self-righteous ego is a must for any self-respecting, truth-loving person.
Prashant Bhushan
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
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.
Dave Van Ronk
A lot of superheroes today are a little self-righteous, and what’s cool about ‘Deadpool’ is that he seems like a guy that you could meet at the 7-Eleven down the street.
Brianna Hildebrand
It turns out I do okay just playing an angry self-righteous woman.
Zoe Bell
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
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
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
Rupert Sheldrake
To all the self-righteous defenders of ‘freedom of speech’ who oh-so-ardently proclaimed that FARA registration places no restrictions whatsoever on RT’s journalistic work in the U.S.: Withdrawal of Congressional credentials speaks much louder than empty platitudes.
Margarita Simonyan
I’ve had enough of the blowhards on cable TV and the self-righteous anger I hear from people whose only accomplishment in life is their ability to turn the dial on an AM radio.
James Carville
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
Charles Spurgeon
I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it’s pleasurable because it’s self-righteous.
Joshua Oppenheimer
A lot of superheroes today are a little self-righteous, and what’s cool about ‘Deadpool’ is that he seems like a guy that you could meet at the 7-Eleven down the street.
Brianna Hildebrand
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
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
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
You cannot cave in saying something that is against your conscience and belief. That self-righteous ego is a must for any self-respecting, truth-loving person.
Prashant Bhushan
As a journalist, I know what it is like to incur the self-righteous wrath of people who denounce you for things you didn’t say or didn’t mean.
Anne Applebaum
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.
Dave Van Ronk
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
If you’ve ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, ‘What Teachers Make,’ is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, ‘Let me tell you what really makes me angry.’
Taylor Mali
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
If you’ve ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, ‘What Teachers Make,’ is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, ‘Let me tell you what really makes me angry.’
Taylor Mali
One should at least have some self-righteous ego. Not i

One should at least have some self-righteous ego. Not in the sense that you refuse to apologise even when judges reason with you to apologise. Self-righteous ego in the sense that nobody can force you to apologise if there is no reason to do so.
Prashant Bhushan
I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it’s pleasurable because it’s self-righteous.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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
To all the self-righteous defenders of ‘freedom of speech’ who oh-so-ardently proclaimed that FARA registration places no restrictions whatsoever on RT’s journalistic work in the U.S.: Withdrawal of Congressional credentials speaks much louder than empty platitudes.
Margarita Simonyan
One should at least have some self-righteous ego. Not in the sense that you refuse to apologise even when judges reason with you to apologise. Self-righteous ego in the sense that nobody can force you to apologise if there is no reason to do so.
Prashant Bhushan
The self-righteous supporters of mass immigration think the rest of us are stupid and evil.
Peter Hitchens
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
I don’t want to sound self-righteous, and I don’t want to act like I have it all put together.
Ainsley Earhardt
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