Quotes About Right

The consequences of committing high treason, if you were a man of the extreme Right, were not unduly heavy, despite the law, and a good many antirepublicans took notice of it.

The National Reich Church of Germany categorically claims the exclusive right and the exclusive power to control all churches within the borders of the Reich: it declares these to be national churches of the German Reich.

Between the Left and the Right, Germany lacked a politically powerful middle class, which in other countries—in France, in England, in the United States—had proved to be the backbone of democracy. In

But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.

For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.

Where was that crisis energy in the real becoming what it was not, if what it was not was right there alongside what it was?

In those late days of summer, as the right ruminated a cleansing, there flourished a millennial indulgence.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

Checklists educate people about what's best, showing them the ironclad right way to do something.

Give me strength to do the right thing, I whispered, though to whom I don't know. I didn't put much trust in the gods.

Order it wrong and choice is oppressive; order it right and its liberating.

Leadership is about doing the right things; management is about doing those things in the right way.

He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.

I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civilization has rules, and I've learned them well -- never be helpless, never be sick, never be poor.

patrician conservatism, which included much of the Spanish officer corps, was by the early months of 1936 increasingly linked up to the self-proclaimed fascist right,

This love in action, the commitment to right relationship and integrity, is essential to the success of any professed sociopolitical agenda.

I am incapable of carrying on a discussion to fruitful lengths. I am incapable of the audacity of being logical. I confess to you, my boy, I have not the strength to be right.

I found that the scales of life, honesty is the balance that should be maintained if there is to be a true civilisation at all. The one who cheats merely cheats himself, because he has lost the scale by which right and wrong are the guides for the uncertain; in his confusion, for the moment, he has no more confidence in himself and his ability to know right from wrong.

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.

And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men!

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.