What you believe, or claim to believe or say you believe—not what you do or how you act or what the results of your actions may be—defines you as a person and makes you “good.”...

  In 21st-century America, almost all of us seem to have concluded that “you are what you say you are. You are what you proclaim your values to be, irrespective of their consequences.” That is moral narcissism. -Roger L. Simon

In the world of the wealthy, liberalism is something you do to offset your rapacious behavior in other spheres...

  But in truth, their blindness is even more sweeping than that. They are lost these days in a hall of moral mirrors, weeping tears of admiration for their own virtue and good taste.

-Thomas Frank

Racism Kept Alive...

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support — kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as “racists.”

"Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism."

Moral Narcissism...

 Forget Narcissus and his reflection, Moral Narcissism—the almost schizophrenic divide between intentions and results now pervading our culture—is the new method for feeling good about yourself.

 It no longer matters how anything turns out as long as your intentions were good, that you were "moral."

Piety expressed, in the most gaudy manner possible, by people most extravagantly removed from the problems addressed, is the greatest lever of social justice the mind of man has conceived. -Rex Murphy