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Quotes About Right

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.
~ Douglas Conant
Courage is the only asset That will conquer in the fight If you have the will to mass it On the lines of truth and right.
~ Unknown
Courage is leaning into the doubts and fears to do what you know is right even when it doesn't feel natural or safe.
~ Leon F. "Lee" Ellis
how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.
~ Blanche Willis Howard
A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.
~ Philip Roth
And how long will the American people stand for this treachery perpetrated by their elected president? How long will Americans remain asleep while their cherished Constitution is torn to shreds by the fascist fifth column of the Republican right marching under the sign of the cross and the flag?
~ Philip Roth
How long will Americans remain asleep while their cherished Constitution is torn to shreds by the fascist fifth column of the Republican right marching under the sign of the cross and the flag?
~ Philip Roth
Like everyone else, evangelicals have a right to present arguments on all the issues, but the moment we present them as part of some "Christian" platform we abandon our moral high ground.
~ Philip Yancey
I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, This is not right. —Claudette Colvin
~ Unknown
The queen is right. The queen is always right.
~ Phillipa Gregory
I can't refute you, Socrates, Agathon said, so I dare say you're right. No, said Socrates, it's the truth you can't refute, my dear Agathon. Socrates is a pushover.
~ Plato
A man must take with him into the world below an adamantine faith in truth and right, that there too he may be undazzled by the desire of wealth or the other allurements of evil, lest, coming upon tyrannies and similar villainies, he do irremediable wrongs to others and suffer yet worse himself; but let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible, not only in this life but in all that which is to come. For this is the way of happiness. And
~ Plato
Someone might say: "Are you not ashamed, Socrates, to have followed the kind of occupation that has led to your being now in danger of death?" However, I should be right to reply to him: "You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his {33} actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.
~ Plato
Dear Crito, your zeal is invaluable, if a right one; but if wrong, the greater the zeal the greater the danger;
~ Plato
Do you imagine that they're going to issue me a citation...what was your name again? Still Eve. No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.
~ Rachel Caine
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.
~ Rachel Carson
How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?
~ Rachel Cohn
She said those bell people are possibly religious freaks, and we are holiday-only lapsed Catholics who support homosexuality and a woman's right to choose.
~ Rachel Cohn
What right have they to disdain a martyr?
~ Rachel Kadish
With you it is always the law, never equity.
~ Rafael Sabatini
because the moon has always been to him the lamp of wisdom, a symbol of the right way to see the world.
~ Dean Koontz
Intuition is the highest form of knowledge. What we learn from others can be mistaught by those not a fraction as knowledgeable as they pretend or by those who are propagandists with agendas. We are born with intuition, however, which includes the natural law, a sense of right and wrong.
~ Dean Koontz
from an age of hope, when honor and a sense that right would always win suffused the land.
~ Dean Koontz