Quotes About Right

May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.

What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

Let's not quibble! 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.

That's why we have rules to begin with, Richie: because you can't trust your mind to tell you what's right and wrong.

She was telling the truth, but that didn't mean she was right.

victims? What happened to 'It's just you and me, we're all they've got'?" I said, "It got pointless, kid. That's what happened. Scorcher Kennedy's right: he's got a beauty of a case. If I were the DPP, I'd give

Pessoa talked about there being no escape," the bear said. "He was right.

I decided to let him have his delusion of always being right. Marriage requires many such moments.

Mr. Lincoln too much, though I confess to despising him. He said that America will never be conquered from without but by the Vandals within. I fear he is only too right.

By fixing every detail of an insult in indelible video, it could prevent the softening that's needed for forgiveness to begin. I thought back to what Erica Meyers said about Remem's inability to hurt solid marriages. Implicit in that assertion was a claim about what qualified as a solid marriage. If someone's marriage was built on—as ironic as it might sound—a cornerstone of forgetfulness, what right did Whetstone have to shatter that?

Proverbs 12:15–16 says: "The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice. A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing and the worst you can do is nothing.

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.

When holiness is achieved by conforming to God's will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before the Lord. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong.

It's because I work in ethics, and, more specifically, applied ethics, that I think it's important that if you have things to say that you think are right and you think could make the world a better place, it's important that many people read about them.

I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it's critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day - and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with.

If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.