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• Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

  Plutarch

  Bird, Vulture, Smallest

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• Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Lying, Dirty, Israel

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• A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

  C. S. Lewis

  Self, Church, May

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.93, HarperCollins UK

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• I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never our goal to frustrate, but it is worth noting that the people who were constantly agitated were the self-righteous, religious elite, the rich, and the powerful. But the people who were fascinated by him, by his love and grace, were folks who were already wounded and ostracized — folks who didn't have much to lose, who already knew full well that they were broken and needed a Savior.

  Shane Claiborne

  Religious, Jesus, Powerful

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.133, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Would Be, Profit, Piety

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• Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity, and quitting with the righteous indignation.'
  
  'Why do so many people seem to love righteous indignation?'
  
  'Because if you can prove you're a victim, all rules are off. You can lash out at people. You don't have to be accountable for anything.

  Brandon Stanton

  Growing Up, Mean, Cutting

  Brandon Stanton (2013). “Humans of New York”, p.290, St. Martin's Press

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• Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.

  Gary Zukav

  Christian, Jew, Angry

  "Occupy Your Heart" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Hate, Heart

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• Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Teaching, Thinking, If There Is A God

  "Death Note". Manga by Tsugumi Ohba, 2003-2006.

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• Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Humble, Self

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• Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of modesty, moderation, compassion, and consideration (not just one society's rules and regulations), the wisdom of seeing things as they are (not of merely collecting "facts" about them), and the happiness of being in harmony with the Way (which has nothing to do with self-righteous "spiritual" obsessions and fanaticism). And you will live lightly, spontaneously, and effortlessly.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Compassion, Self

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• Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life. Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.

  Alan Bennett

  Dream, Godly, Thinking

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• The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

  Moliere

  Philosophy, Heart, Exercise

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• Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow your Lord. The masses are always wrong. In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Heart, Roots

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• Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Wisdom, Fowl

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Looks, Mist, Alluring

  'The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge' (1966) 'Dolce Vita in a Cold Climate'

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• The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

  Robert Breault

  Attention, Morality, Sin

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• People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to dissenting beliefs in small, insidious steps. They begin by saying, 'We're the righteous, and we'll tolerate those others.' And as the toleration diminishes over time, the inevitable harms are overlooked. It is for that reason that James Madison wisely wrote that 'it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties'.

  Michael Newdow

  People, One Day, Liberty

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• It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Literature, Courses, Profitable

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• The gods behold all righteous actions.

  Ovid

  Action

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• Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. But often faltering feet Come surest to the goal; And they who walk in darkness meet The sunrise of the soul.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Success, Wise, Strong

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

  Glenn Beck

  Live Life, Men, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.

  Thomas Traherne

  Theatre, World, Kingdoms

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.145, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.

  Valerie Solanas

  Dog, Men, Males

  Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM Manifesto”, p.67, Verso

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• I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.

  Billy Crudup

  Thinking, Self, Wish

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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