Moral Superiority

All political movements are

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. … Read more

I normally can’t stand

I normally can’t stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party. Dennis Lehane

Then he is a

Then he is a monster! the Prince crowed, and I must slay him at once. The Formula works! Your Formula must result in a great deal of fighting, I mused. Oh, yes, when applied correctly mighty and noble battles result! Of course I always win—the value of Prince X is a constant. It cannot be … Read more

It is Toussaint’s supreme

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 … Read more

When moral superiority combines

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke. Barbara Kingsolver

But there are still

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