Sanctimonious Quotes - Page 2

• As a kid, I had a real fascination with perverse, off-color, and kind of risky things, and I also had a very sanctimonious Catholic, purist side.

  George Saunders

  Real, Kids, Color

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Husband, Wife, Quality

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• But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Intellectual, Religion

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• I really am tired of all the Clinton Democrats running around getting all-sanctimonious over Iraq. It was them who killed 1.5 to 2.2 million Iraqis through sanctions. Sanctions that Madeline Albright, their illustrious Secretary of State, when confronted with the fact of 500,000 dead Iraqi children, said it was a price she was willing to pay.

  Scott Ritter

  Running, Children, Tired

  "Scott Ritter Says Controversial Things About Clinton, Bush, Fox News, the Surge, etc." by Chris Davis, www.memphisflyer.com. May 03, 2008.

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• There are good intentions behind many peoples conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But its hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an extremist way of eating.

  Julie Klausner

  Animal, Views, Way

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• He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.

  John Irving

  Self, Nurse, Abortion

  "The Cider House Rules". Book by John Irving, 1985.

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• Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.

  Libba Bray

  Empathy, Listening, Would Be

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• Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.

  Vivek Shraya

  Prudent, Active

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For years Christians in particular have been attacked and silenced as they tried to challenge the immorality pervasive in today's society. When they tell people casual sex is wrong, they get the inevitable, "You got no right to tell me what I can or can't do. You don't get to define morality for me. It's none of your business what I do. Shut up." If they oppose sexual immorality in any form including adultery, they are maligned as sanctimonious Puritans who have not gotten with it in the twenty-first century. It's a long piece; it's well thought out.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Christian, Long, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

  Adam Gopnik

  Reading, Pirate, Magazines

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