Quotes About Right

A cloud that has gathered over us; though 'we have wronged no man, corrupted no man, defrauded no man!' Though perhaps we have 'done that which was right in our own eyes.

Yes: there; wives be such a provoking class o' society, because though they be never right, they be never more than half wrong.

Tocqueville was correct in his rendition of how the Constitution was formed, but he likely never dreamed that an American president would ever send an invading army to kill some 300,000 of his own citizens in order to destroy the right of secession, a right that all of America's founding fathers held as sacrosanct and that was at the very heart of the American system of government.

With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty, which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself everything but health, without which there is no happiness.

ANOTHER characteristic of the devil's moral theology is the exaggeration of all distinctions between this and that, good and evil, right and wrong. These distinctions become irreducible divisions.

Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right—creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled to rewards for being articulate, politically active, and morally fervent.

Justice at all costs' is not justice.

People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.

While those with the tragic vision may see social issues in terms of making the best choice among limited and often unpalatable alternatives, those with the vision of the anointed tend to see these same issues in terms of what should be done to make things right in the cosmic scheme of things.

As a journal tool, though, Clustering does these and more. It also helps integrate the left and right hemispheres of the brain by drawing from characteristics of each. On the "right brain" side, Clustering generates an easy flow of ideas in random sequence. On the "left brain" side, it provides a structure from which information can be easily organized.

How noble. But that's your fatal error. Right, boy?

Ahh, I know." Dr. Shandy looked relieved. "Some of this wine will be just the right thing. Have some." "Will it help?" Jam asked. "Well, no, it never actually helps. But it's a really nice vintage.

The world can never be in the state of right order, strong government, and good influence unless London is truly and literally established as its capital.

Attempts to rehabilitate the political right in western Europe have not only resulted in a whitewash: in some cases, absurdly, it has allowed right-wing extremists to portray themselves as the injured party.

Of course, you won't confirm or deny it, which means I'm probably right, since if I was wrong, you'd be gloating about it.

The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'

In investing, the crowd is wrong much more often than right.

What most people refer to as "Seriousness" is actually a sign of the ego. Most of us are "serious" because we are too self-obsessed - obsessed by our self-importance and our own notions of what is good, what is right, what is true, etc.

Nature must have contrasts; she must have shadows as well as highlights; sorrow with happiness; both wrong and right; and sin as well as virtue.

We need to articulate a different view of economic, political, and spiritual affairs—a view that is not primarily Left or Right, that is not wrapped around the primacy of this mechanism or that one, that doesn't believe that the solution to our problems lies with Big Government, Big Corporations, Big Money, or Big Ideology.

Eight days later he sent to Congress the most sweeping bill for civil rights up to that time, and urged it 'not merely for reasons of economic efficiency, world diplomacy and domestic tranquility—but above all because it is right.

Official criticism participates in the pitiable fate of Proktophantasmist and his lamentation in the Walpurgis-night: "You still are here? Nay, 'tis a thing unheard! Vanish at once ! We've said the enlightening word." Such criticism has omitted to take to heart the truth that all that exists has sufficient right to its existence: no less is it with psychoanalysis.

Five years of reporting on attention have confirmed some home truths," Gallagher reports. "[Among them is the notion that] 'the idle mind is the devil's workshop'… when you lose focus, your mind tends to fix on what could be wrong with your life instead of what's right.

This message is not as inspiring as "follow your passion and you'll immediately be happy," but it certainly has a ring of truth. In other words, working right trumps finding the right work.