Grumpy Vegan

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

Mason Cooley, 1927 – 2002, American aphorist and professor of English.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Charlotte Bronte, 1816 – 1855, English novelist.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man’s conscience, he hears a voice whispering, “There is something not right,” no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.

Carl G. Jung, in the introduction to Frances G. Wickes’ The Inner World of Childhood, 1931.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Sir Robert Hutchinson

Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it – what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

Carlos Castaneda, writer

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Gustave Flaubert, 1821 – 1880, French novelist.