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Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane. -- Audrey Meadows
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 don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles. -- Suzanne Collins
I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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
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
A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded. -- Roger Babson
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
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
Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people. -- Ashton Kutcher
People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means. -- Alex Gibney
With my physicality and my face, I don't think I could pull off a completely righteous guy. There's something devious about my eyes. I like characters with flaws and to see how they overcome those flaws. I want to play real people, and they're flawed, not perfect. -- Emraan Hashmi
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
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
When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?' -- Corey Taylor
Righteous people have no sense of humor. -- Bertolt Brecht
People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable -- Desmond Tutu
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. -- Jonathan Haidt
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The best of knowledge and righteous acts are those hidden to the people. -- Al-Fudhayl ibn Iyyadh
The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things. -- John Darnielle
When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan. -- William Paterson
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. -- Martin Luther
. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness. -- Karl Popper
A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people. -- Grace Lee Boggs
Be a communicator, not a self-righteous proselytizer or preacher. Many people are only concerned with expressing themselves, which isn't necessarily communication. -- Sharon Gannon
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
To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it. -- Joan Lowery Nixon
Heaven is not a place for people who trust in religious works and set aside The Righteous Justice, Loving Kindness, Grace and Mercy of GOD. -- Errol Anthony Smythe
It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration. -- Terry Eagleton
The reason people hate America is because they don't like being treated like garbage by arrogant, pompous, hypocritical, self-righteous, duplicitous, imperialist political and bureaucratic hacks. -- Jacob G. Hornberger
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

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