“It is easy to distinguish the evil worked by sin and vice, but the trained eye sees also the evil done by self-righteous or self-regarding virtue.”

“There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.”

“Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.”

“One’s virtue cannot always be trusted; for some, use their righteousness for self-righteous purposes.”

“Whatever you do against your better knowledge is sin. (…) Remembering your self is virtue, forgetting your self is sin. (…)”

“America’s media seem utterly lacking in introspection. Do they understand why so many people hate them so? Do they care? Are they so smugly self-righteous and self-regarding they cannot see?”

“Said the self-righteous preacher, "What, in your judgment, is the greatest sin in the world?"
"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.”

“The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.
To regard the self as easy to subdue is a mistake.”

“Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited … and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.”

“Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.”