“The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.” — Bertrand Russell, “Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness,” Sceptical Essays
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“It is probably this naive surprise at things that keeps us going. If we took it for granted that the ancient Egyptians could draw a goose accurately, or that Eskimos could sing bass, or that Grandpa should be interested in everything at eighty-two, there wouldn’t be anything for us to hang our own superiority on.” — Robert Benchley, “Isn’t It Remarkable?,” My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew
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“When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.” — Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
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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, A Notorious Life
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