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Quotes About Right

It is what we of the working class preach. We know, and well we know by bitter experience, that no appeal for the right, for justice, for humanity, can ever touch you.
~ Jack London
All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer.
~ Jack London
I don't get the airplay that one in my position deserves. 'Twist and Shout' gets more airplay than 'The Twist,' and that's not right.
~ Chubby Checker
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
~ Carroll Quigley
Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.
~ Grant Shapps
I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the military. This is not for law enforcement. This is for us. And, in fact, when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny.
~ Sharron Angle
In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
~ Flume
If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
~ Iris Chang
Life is the ultimate right.
~ Chris Smith
Even if the Right says that Um Al-Fahm should be outside Israel, this is impossible.
~ Reuven Rivlin
I just received the endorsement of the National Right to Life, and more than anybody else, more than any organization I can think of, I'm proud that they recognize the work that we've done to save the lives of the unborn.
~ Thom Tillis
I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
~ Ani DiFranco
No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.
~ Madame de Stael
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.
~ Winston Churchill
Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.
~ Solas
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.
~ Samuel Gridley Howe
Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our natural wisdom.
~ Stephen Levine
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.
~ David O. McKay
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
~ Idries Shah, Reflections