"If you find yourself on the receiving end of hypocritical sanctimony, remember that the words are the result of a weak person's delusion and their need to turn a blind eye to their own deficiencies. It is pure and simple deflection of the truth, a fake reality created to guard against the mind accepting the crumbling of their fantasy. To them, their situation is different, their situation is real, and in order for their faulty version of the truth to remain real in their eyes, you must be downgraded to a pitiable, inferior, short-sighted weakling. Condescension, whether thickly applied or thinly veiled, will be used throughout. It actually has very little to nothing to do with you. This behavior of theirs, you see, is both arrogance and subconscious desperation at its very core. Sanctimony is the result of an insecure, needy individual masquerading as though she were strong." - Cara K. Schmidt