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Quotes About Right

Common right is nought but the protection of all radiating over the right of each. This protection of all is termed Fraternity. The point of intersection of all these aggregated sovereignties is called Society. This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence comes what is called the social tie.
~ Victor Hugo
Le sens révolutionnaire est un sens moral. Le sentiment du droit, développé, développe le sentiment du devoir. La loi de tous, c'est la liberté, qui finit où commence la liberté d'autrui, selon l'admirable définition de Robespierre.
~ Victor Hugo
Ordinarily it ends in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a swamp.
~ Victor Hugo
I did not think that it was so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
~ Victor Hugo
Neither side has been aware of it, but large factions of the elite left and the populist right have been wearing different uniforms on the same team—the Fantasyland team.
~ Kurt Andersen
what the left and right respectively love and hate are mostly flip sides of the same coins minted around 1967. All the ideas we call countercultural barged onto the cultural main stage in the 1960s and '70s, it's true, but what we don't really register is that so did extreme Christianity, full-blown conspiracism, libertarianism, unembarrassed greed, and more. Anything goes meant anything went.
~ Kurt Andersen
Gemstones have been used since the beginning by ancient peoples and sometimes even for the right things. The problem is that they're only as good as the person using them.
~ L.J. Smith
She thought of Akiva, the night he had come to her at the river, the crushing pain and shame in his face, and love, still love - sorrow and love and hope - and she remembered the night of the Warlord's ball, how Akiva had always been the right to Thiago's wrong, the heat to the Wolf's chill, the safety to this monster's menace.
~ Laini Taylor
Just then, lit only by the flicker of his wings,the sight of him was so..right somehow. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou
~ Laini Taylor
Demon pox, oh, demon pox, Just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of town Until one is very tired. Demon pox, oh, demon pox I had it all along— No, not the pox, you foolish blocks, I mean this very song— For I was right, and you were wrong!
~ Cassandra Clare
I have a feeling you're right, Sherwin.' 'Simon. My name is Simon.
~ Cassandra Clare
Demon pox, oh demon pox Just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of town Until one is very tired. Demon pox, oh demon pox, I had it all along— Not the pox, you foolish blocks, I mean this very song— For I was right, and you were wrong!
~ Cassandra Clare
But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?
~ Cassandra Clare
And you love Sophie." Gideon's mouth tensed. "She's a mundane and a servant," said Gabriel. "I don't know what you expect to come of it, Gideon." "Nothing," Gideon said roughly. "I expect nothing. But the fact that you believe I should shows that our family brought us up to believe that we should do right only if some reward was the result.
~ Cassandra Clare
Strong is right?" "Well, yes, I suppose you could say that." "You say a woman cannot be bought. I say she can. I am strong. I am right.
~ Catherine Anderson
Everybody is careful these days to maintain just the right attitude toward the war effort.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
cognitive illusions are difficult to overcome. That is why education of the public is doomed to fail and paternalistic strategies to maneuver people into doing the "right" things are the only viable alternative.
~ Gerd Gigerenzer
Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
~ German proverb
The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
November makes me anxious. This year's holidays are approaching with a particularly lean and nervous look, like coyotes dressed as reindeer and ready for a tussle. Nothing feels right.
~ Gina Barreca
No centro do processo, a coerência e a veracidade contam muito menos que a amplitude da ressonância, que cobre o espectro inteiro das opiniões – daquelas que até recentemente reivindicavam carimbo de esquerda radical às que pertencem à extrema-direita.
~ Giuliano da Empoli
Playing may be easy, but playing the right way is not. ("Interpretations," A Cultural History of the Theatre in the Middle Ages, ed. Jody Enders, (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), 136.)
~ Glending Olson
The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.
~ Glenn Beck
Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.
~ Glenn Beck