Righteous Quotes

• All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

  

  Socrates
  • Divine
  • Souls
  • Immortal

• Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.

  

  Fats Domino
  • Home
  • Thoughts
  • Secret

• Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.

  

  William Allen White
  • Democracy
  • Sentiments
  • Unselfish

• The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Human
  • Holy

• I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Rap
  • Devil
  • Hip Hop

• What I'm trying to do is be righteous. And when I say “righteous,” I don't mean God. You know? God- Righteous. I mean just when I wake up, I know I was honest to myself.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Up
  • God
  • Trying

• It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Sick
  • Healthy
  • Sinners

• Righteous willin, the only thing supreme swimmin'.

  

  Nelly
  • Expression
  • Supreme
  • Righteous

• Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Way
  • Noble

• The gods behold all righteous actions.

  

  Ovid
  • Gods
  • Actions
  • Righteous

• God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Blood
  • Sinner
  • Righteousness

• The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

  

  Euripides
  • Company
  • Righteous
  • Estate

• I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Sure
  • Again
  • Righteous

• In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • School
  • Fake
  • Creating

• If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.'

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Angry

• The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to die in battle with their friends rather than to flee on their own and survive.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Men
  • Battle
  • Chosen

• Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

  

  John Hancock
  • Reason
  • Justice
  • Revolution

• Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being “broadminded”, are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the history of humanity. No primitive tribe worshipping with its witch-doctor was ever more vicious in its hatred and suppression of heretics than today's Marxist intellectuals, anti-racists and liberals.

  

  George Lincoln Rockwell
  • Pride
  • Hatred
  • Primitive

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

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Course
  • Righteous
  • Profitable

• History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Justice
  • Teach
  • Thirst

• In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, Angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters, protectors of the righteous, punishers of the wicked, and more.

  

  David Connolly
  • Teacher
  • Angel
  • Guardian

• God is righteous in making the sinner righteous.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Sinner
  • Righteous

• It's more important to be righteous than to be right.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Important
  • Right
  • Righteous

• 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
  • Inevitable
  • Genocide

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