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Quotes About Right

How can a nation speak with one voice if they are not one? Don't forget, now. If you do, you encourage all the stupid but greedy and ambitious to sprout like toadstools and that's the end of right and reason in the state. Coddling and wheedling is not going to stop these destroyers. To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
If you have an adversary, you don't have to respect what they're saying, but respect their right to say it.
~ Daryl Davis
On three things life rests: on right, which is set forth in the Law; on truth, which is set forth in the world; and on the love of one man for another, which is set forth in your heart.
~ Howard Fast
All social groups groups make rules and attempt, at some times and under some circumstances, to enforce them. Social rules define situations and the kinds of behavior appropriate to them, specifying some actions as "right" and forbidding others as "wrong".
~ Unknown
It is no less ancient than a pestilent error wherewith many men (but they chiefly who abound in power and riches) persuade themselves, or (as I think more truly) go about to persuade, that right and wrong are distinguished not according to their own nature but by a certain vain opinion and custom of men.
~ Hugo Grotius
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
~ Ice T
To strengthen what is right in a fool is a holy task
~ I-Ching
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
~ Idries Shah
action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.
~ Idries Shah
Sufi service has to be the right kind of service; neither servitude nor hypocrisy.
~ Idries Shah
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
~ Igor Stravinsky
If the gift is finally the sign and content of Christ's lordship in earth, we can no longer live by our own will and right but constantly stand in responsibility and accountability. . . . To this degree the last day does not differ from each earthly day'.
~ Unknown
Possession is eleven points in the law.
~ Colley Cibber
Usenet isn't a right. It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the jaw.
~ Unknown
If you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst to profound reinvention.
~ Conan O'Brien
Ambrose says: "Faith is the mother of a good will and doing what is right.
~ Unknown
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
~ Coretta Scott King
I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.
~ Corin Nemec
The right choice was the more difficult one. Way more difficult. But as Jesus followers, we know it's best to choose hard over easy when hard is right.
~ Craig Groeschel
I don't think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can't convey the right emotion, fuel your imagination or allow you to visualise every line the way books do.
~ Sonam Kapoor
I mean we just simply can't stand for the systemic racism, social injustice and police brutality against the black community anymore. And it's really about standing up for what's right versus what's wrong.
~ Erik Spoelstra
The old division of Left versus Right is dead. In the Internet age, it's about citizens versus parliamentary relics.
~ Beppe Grillo
One of the things that I've always appreciated about the 'X-Men' style of storytelling versus other Marvel stories is how fluid the line between good and bad and right and wrong is.
~ Noah Hawley
There's no such thing as racism, sexism, 'homophobi-ism,' 'Islamophobi-ism' - it's good versus evil, right versus wrong.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson