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Quotes About Right

I hate reasoning, John - especially reasoning on such subjects. There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe it yourselves, when it comes to practice.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.
~ Harriette Simpson Arnow
To most of us, it was merely a matter of form. We would have voted the contract right then and there.
~ Harry Kemelman
I am] just a common everyday man whose instincts are to be ornery, who's anxious to be right.
~ Harry Truman
The object attained by both good and bad methods is the same, but the way one tries to attain it turns the object into right or wrong. It is not the object which is wrong, it is the way one adopts to attain it.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Love is always right.
~ laymon richard
Don't wonder about right and wrong. Those are weapons as deadly as bombs and bullets. Right is the goodness you carry in your heart—love for your ancestors and your baby and your family and for everything that lives. Wrong is anything that comes between you and that love.
~ Le Ly Hayslip
Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
~ Learned Hand
Courage is leaning into the doubts and fears to do what you know is right even when it doesn't feel natural or safe.
~ Lee Ellis
Eve had to admire her for that jab. Simone wasn't intimidated and she was also right. Nepotism wasn't a good look, either.
~ Lee Goldberg
As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the truth, then it's valid. Then at the end of the film, I leave it up to the audience to decide who did the right thing.
~ lee spike
There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.
~ leibfreed edwin ii
It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.
~ Lemony Snicket
It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is the one who is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right. Right?
~ Lemony Snicket
Because assigning blame assigns responsibility. So I blame myself and give myself the responsibility to make it right.
~ Lena Matthews
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Once we were inside, I went straight for Doolin's bunk. I pulled open his sleeping bag, stuck my hand in that jar of peanut butter, and started spreading it around like I was making the world's biggest sandwich. Norman was right behind with the honey. "Rafe, this isn't right," he said. "Sure it is," I said. "The peanut butter always goes first.
~ James Patterson
You'll wait right here?" I asked Frank. He nodded. "If you hear any screams . . ." "I'll come running," he said. "Don't worry, Jigsaw. I'll be right here. Trust me .
~ James Preller
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
~ James Thurber
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
~ Jane Austen
It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.
~ Jane Austen
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world.
~ Jane Austen
He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it. Then, it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.
~ Jane Austen
The point is, you have a choice, and you do the right thing; you don't act on it.
~ Jane Green