When we think ill of others because of our own pride, we lose our ability to discriminate. We then lose our good sense and let our polluted thoughts come out of our mouths. We often know we shouldn’t be speaking something, but we say it anyway. There is no place for such behavior in Vaishnava sanga. If we have any good sense left in us, we’ll immediately repent our sharp tongue. That repentance is our only hope. If we don’t repent, we become degraded.
(SB 4.11.11 Kaunas, September 1995)