Virtue Signaling Quotes

“When it comes to anti-fascism in most of Western Europe, there would appear for now to be a supply-and-demand problem: the demand for fascists vastly outstrips the actual supply.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“But people who fundamentally change are rare, in my experience, because it's bloody hard work compared to going on a march or waving a flag. Have we met a single person on this case who's radically different to the person they were forty years ago?"

"I don't know . . . I think I've changed," said Robin, then felt embarrassed to have said it out loud.

Strike looked at her without smiling for the space it took him to chew and swallow a chip, then said,

"Yeah. But you're exceptional, aren't you?”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

“I predict that there will be many more like him in the future,” she sighed. “People of privilege speaking heroically on behalf of those with whom they have no intention of mixing.”
― Kevin Ansbro, In the Shadow of Time

“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.”
― Thomas Payne

“Pepperleigh always read the foreign news -- the news of things that he couldn't alter -- as a form of wild and stimulating torment.”
― Stephen Leacock, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

“Which parts of the Bill of Rights are you willing to surrender just so you can virtue signal your willingness to compromise... to find a middle ground... to be middle of the road?”
― A.E. Samaan

“It can be extremely difficult to discern evil hearts because their intention is to look good, not be good.”
― Leslie Vernick, The Emotionally Destructive Relationship: Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It

“The most fact-oriented people are those willing to check self-proclaimed "fact-checkers", the most scientifically-minded people are those willing to question every so-called "scientific consensus", and the most virtue-driven people are those willing to expose "virtue signallers".”
― Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

“The ones who raise my suspicions most are those who announce to the world just how nice and kind they are.”
― Charles F Glassman

“Astonishing, of course, that those very terms - 'reeducation' and 'rehabilitation' - do not scare the hell out of academics who use them and hear them. That they do not call to mind the not-so-distant history of authoritarian regimes in Europe or lead on to the thought that 'diversity,' for many of us in the academy, has now come to mean a plurality of sameness. More important: the words, apparently, do not suggest how vulnerable we are - all of us - to error, slippage, and hurt, and how the protocols, tribunals, and shamings currently favored by many in the academy have distracted us from our primary obligation, which is to foster an atmosphere of candor, good will, kindness, and basic decency without which we can be of no use to one another or to our students.”
― Robert Boyers, The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies

“But when people don’t know what is really happening then rumors start. And that is when you need to be really careful.”
― Gita Trelease, All That Glitters

“People who raise my suspicions most are those who must let everyone know just how nice and kind they are.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“Sea como fuere, toda exhibición de virtud requiere exagerar los problemas, lo que a su vez hace que los problemas crezcan todavía más.”
― Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

“Modern society doesn’t have a problem with treating the janitor the same as the CEO. We have a problem with our need to show the world that we treat the janitor the same as the CEO.”
― Cic Mellace

“Social media amplifies the cruelty and "virtue signaling" that are recurrent features of call-out culture. (Virtue signaling refers to the things people say and do to advertise that they are virtuous...)”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

“Left or right, people are not as cooperative as they believe themselves to be. Political candidates have huge incentives to be seen as superhuman altruists; these incentives magnify the potential for self-deception.”
― Avi Tuschman, Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us

“We fool ourselves into believing that pausing to share opinions about loving our neighbor as ourselves is the same thing as courageously emptying ourselves to do it. We signal virtue where love demands we sacrifice for it.”
― Chuck Ammons, En(d)titlement: Trade a Culture of Shame for a Life Marked by Grace

“What virtue signallers do not seem to realize is that a virtuous act can only be spontaneous and immediate, in the present moment. It cannot be premeditated, because if it is preplanned then it is done for motive, and that is an act of the ego. The most common motive is to elevate one’s image in the eyes of others. But in fact, such a calculated act will only serve to weaken your power in the long run, in the eyes of the Universe. The most common offending groups are politicians and celebrities.”
― Jack Freestone

“Evil people want to look good to others. They also want to appear good in their own eyes, so the pangs of shame and self-reproach do not penetrate their hearts.”
― Leslie Vernick, The Emotionally Destructive Relationship: Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It

“When you give your money to a restaurant or a retail store, the goods you get in return might show others something of your financial means, but it also depletes your wealth. You’re showing people that you used to have money and now you have something that costs more money.”
― Christopher Manske, Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS

“We’re conditioned that our success (and our neighbor’s) is best measured by looking at our possessions. Those possessions influence perception, and because a certain perception earns us status, we chase the proof of wealth rather than wealth itself.”
― Christopher Manske, Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS

“Homes, and other purchases like it, supposedly prove to our community that we have money, but many times these purchases are just signaling to others that we used to have money.”
― Christopher Manske, Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS

“It's concerning when human resources become the root cause of a crisis due to their ineptitude in an organization.”
― Sasha Laghonh

“It's concerning when human resources becomes the root cause of a crisis due to their ineptitude in an organization. (2023)”
― Sasha Laghonh

“Most companies that virtue signal have two things in common - mediocrity and hidden skeletons in the closet.”
― Sasha Laghonh