Quotes About Right

Obviously the federal government has the ability and the right to have their currency and to create the kind of policy that they believe will promote American values.

As exhausted as they may be, Republicans need to appeal to their sense of consciousness. To their principles. To what is right and wrong. To American values.

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

IN 1998, TOM WOLFE brought me his proposal for a new novel, A Man in Full. I didn't feel it would be right for us to try to repeat the Bonfire of the Vanities serialization.

This must have been how it all began with Chymes," sighed Jack. "A small omission on one case, an 'embellishment' on the next. The question is not about what's best but what's right. Chymes had confused the two and compromised not only his own integrity but that of the police—and the due process of law.

She's a journalist. She wrote a long piece about whether bears should be allowed to carry weapons for self-defence.' 'The "right to arm bears" controversy?

Have you been attending church in London, Sis?" "I don't really have the time, Joff." "We make time, Sis." I sighed. He was right.

Les lois du marché font que seule la demande solvable est comblée. Elles imposent l'ignorance délibérée du fait que l'alimentation est un droit humain, un droit pour tous. (p. 311)

Those who hold power know very well the difference between a right and a permission … A right in a strict sense of the term gives access to the exercise of a power, at the expense of another power. A permission doesn't diminish the power of the one who gives it; it doesn't augment the power of the one who gets it. It makes his life easier, which is not nothing.

The word 'slavery' and 'right' are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.

The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

THE STRONGEST IS NEVER STRONG enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. Hence the right of the strongest, which, though to all seeming meant ironically, is really laid down as a fundamental principle.

Outlaw. Rumrunner. Bootlegger. Blockader. I don't for one second forget that what we are doing is illegal, but legal and illegal and right and wrong don't always line up. Ask a former slave. Plenty of them still around. Sometimes the so-called law is nothing but the haves telling the have-nots to stay in their place.

General ideas are more flattering. And then professionals and even amateurs always end up by being right

Thus pleasure itself, also becoming a right, lost its aggressive futility.

I think is about confidence. Is about doing the right things. Is about being healthy. Is not about if I want to work or if I don't want to work. Is about if I can work or if I can't work.

I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.

The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government

If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!

Let's say loudly and clearly, Right to Work is wrong for workers and wrong for America.