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Quotes About Right

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.
~ John Locke
As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?
~ William A. Dembski
Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
~ Carolyn Heilbrun
The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.
~ William O. Douglas
We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
~ Robert Caro
It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.
~ Steve Case
Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cosmic Ordering is neither a religion nor an elaborate program. You have everything within you to succeed: right attitude and right intentions.
~ Stephen Richards
Growing your leadership capacity demands personal effectiveness. Being effective is the ability to do the right thing at all times, no matter the cost.
~ Benjamin Suulola
Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.
~ Noah Webster
Talk of poems and prayers and promises, and things that we believe in. How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care, how long it's been since yesterday.
~ John Denver
If I am right Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way!
~ Alexander Pope
If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I need you to rescue me from my destiny, I'm tryna live right and give you whatevers left of me.
~ Drake
Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.
~ Alice Waters
It is impossible to worship God acceptably and not come to Him in right relationship to...the Word of God.
~ Jack W. Hayford
They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice. (Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")
~ William Penn
turn up there. At the least, it would exhaust certain other possibilities. I'd like to do it now, right here, while she's sleeping. I'll give her a local, of course, but it's movement I'm trying to eliminate.
~ William Peter Blatty
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
~ William Punshon
Finnish troops knew they were in the army to fight, not to march in parades, and in the kind of war they were called upon to fight, that was precisely the right set of priorities.
~ William R. Trotter
If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!
~ William Shatner
The key to true freedom is not just following whatever desires we happen to have, but cultivating the right desires. This means that the internal movement of the will is not a sufficient condition for freedom; we must consider the end toward which the will is moved.
~ William T. Cavanaugh
But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts
~ Woodrow Wilson