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To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching. -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world. -- Caitlin Moran
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words. -- Anna Quindlen
The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people. -- Charles L. Allen
Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us. -- David Brin
Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong. -- Pema Chodron
We, as Americans, at least - I mean, I love my country - but we're so self-righteous sometimes, in terms of, like, our nationality, our country. But we're people from somewhere else; the true 'Americans' are the original peoples. It's funny, but we're a very territorial species. -- Peter Dinklage
Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics. -- Bono
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ. -- John Woolman
So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing. -- Stephen J. Cannell
We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. -- John McCarthy
Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable. -- Fannie Lou Hamer
God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results. -- Beth Moore
People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness. -- Han Fei
Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people. -- Zengzi
To whom much is given, much is required. Righteousness exalts a nation...but sin is a reproach to any people -- Jonathan Cahn
Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment. -- Chanakya
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
In business, ruthlessness is righteousness.Seldom are there those, whom are ruthlessly righteous.Listen to these people, before the Earth repents of mankind. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins. -- J. C. Ryle
It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them. -- Marilynne Robinson
For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch. -- Guru Gobind Singh
To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom. -- Confucius

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