*RIGHT/*RIGHTEOUSNESS - see WAY, PATH
Buddhism's Eight Fold path of "Right Living" leading to nirvana, the state of pure enlightenment and bliss: 1. right knowledge, 2. right aspiration, 3. right speech, 4. right behavior, 5. right livelihood, 6. right effort, 7. right mindfulness, 8. right meditation
In the Bible, righteousness means not merely right conduct, but right thinking. (Sermon on the Mount, p31)
How do children manage to be so angry with each other one minute and the best of friends the next? That's because they choose happiness over righteousness. And strange as it may seem, happiness may be a more authentically religious value than righteousness. (How Good, p109)
Let us have faith that right makes might. (Abraham Lincoln)
A clock that's stopped is right twice a day, and the careless observer might universalize on those two accidents to think it's always dependable. (Crucifix, p88)
*SELF-RIGHTEOUS/*SELF-PRIDE
Pride or self-righteousness was the first sin of the angels and mankind and is the root of all evil. (Randy)
Self righteousness or pride taken to the extreme produces things like terrorism, civil war (US-slavery, Ireland-Protestants/Catholics), ... (Randy)