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Quotes About Right

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.
~ George R.R. Martin
Even the 'right to live'...extends no further than the right to protection against murder. Charity certainly will, morality possibly may, and public utility perhaps ought to add to this protection supererogatory provision for continuance of life; but it is questionable whether strict justice demands it.
~ George Saintsbury
The most powerful force in the world is not a weapon or a nation but a truth: that we are spiritual beings, and that freedom is "the soul's right to breathe."
~ George Walker Bush
After all, to cultivate clever people is merely a way of dining out, and a priest has no right to go out to dinner in a world full of starving people.
~ Georges Bernanos
Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!
~ Georgette Heyer
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Give your decision, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.
~ Lord Mansfield
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
~ Robert Peel
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
~ Jonathan Swift
There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.
~ Henry George
I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectu-alism and much more, only to begin to find ... that truth is basically simple-and feels good, clean and right.
~ Chick Corea
Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.
~ Wendell Phillips
Heaven itself has ordained the right.
~ George Washington
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
~ Marianne Moore
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage.
~ Confucius
...the goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade.
~ Ellen Willis, 2006
No one ever says you're being judgmental if you think something is right or good or healthy. Only the opposite—only if you don't like it and only if they do like it.
~ J.D. Robb
and they had the suitcase with them. Come on, we're going to do it now, said Drummond. Reid asked why. There's just a time when you instinctively know it is right, Cauty replied. The plan had been to get up early on the morning of
~ J.M.R. Higgs
You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always do right, but their souls remain pure. You are untainted at your core. Now close your eyes, numb nuts, I
~ J.R. Ward
A veces hacer lo correcto era aterrador, pero el corazón la había llevado hasta allí y pensaba seguir adelante con sus planes...
~ J.R. Ward
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
~ Jack Kerouac
All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer. You go to Sunday-school to learn what
~ Jack London