Quotes with righteousness

  • No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
  • Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

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  • Barry Eisler Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Charlotte Brontë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Edward Hoagland Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Bryan Singer I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • 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.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Bob Marley It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Martin Luther King No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • William James Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • John Wooden Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Harry S. Truman The atom bomb was no ''great decision.'' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Albert Einstein True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bill Griffith Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson We need to look at truth. We need to look at justice, and we need to look at righteousness. And let that be our guide going forward.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Samuel Butler When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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