“There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.”
“To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”
“More than half described Christians as literalistic, anti-intellectual, judgmental, self-righteous, and bigoted.”
“Nothing in the study of history is cheaper than the exercise of unearned self-righteousness that derives from nothing more virtuous than ordinary hindsight.”
“For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.”
“There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.”