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Quotes About Right

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.
~ Dick Wolf
Things are much simpler here than we like. Not that we do not know God's commandments, but that we do not do them—and then gradually, as a consequence of such disobedience, we no longer know what is right—that is our predicament.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is not at all surprising that the disciples imagined that the law had been abrogated, when Jesus made promises like this. For these promises reversed all popular notions of right and wrong, and pronounced a blessing on all that was accounted worthless.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my own law, I have a right to my self, my hatred and my desires, my life and my death. The
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives and right associates.
~ Dion Fortune
It's like a battery that has to have a positive and a negative. One doesn't work without the other. You've gotta have the good and the bad in order to know what's right, and in order to know what's real and what ain't.
~ Dolly Parton
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do.
~ Gautama Buddha
I'm just trying to do the opposite of left, as long as there's the opposite of death, ya know Yes, ya test and I just might bring the opposite of life, til' there's no one the opposite of right
~ Lupe Fiasco
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.
~ Jack Nicholson
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
~ Keith Richards
The wind making my hair feel sticky, the salty sea breeze, all of it felt just right. Like it had been waiting for me to get here.
~ Jenny Han
My older sister has a way of sounding right.
~ Jenny Han
Kant does not seem to envisage that we are torn between two courses of action for moral reasons. He makes no provisions for genuine moral dilemmas, where no option is unambiguously right or all options are equally problematic.
~ Jens Timmermann
It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
~ Jeremy Bentham
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
~ Jeremy Bentham
It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.
~ Jerry Moran
the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.
~ Jess Walter
Ich lüge auch. Aber ich weiß es. Ich weiß, dass das System falsch ist. Bei uns in der Wirtschaft sieht das ein Blinder. Aber ich diene dem falschen System mit Hingabe. Denn im Rahmen des falschen Systems, dem ich mein bescheidenes Talent zur Verfügung stelle, sind die falschen Maßnahmen naturgemäß richtig und die richtigen sind begreiflicherweise falsch.
~ Erich Kastner
When I look back on the perils which have been overcome, upon the great mountain waves in which the gallant ship has driven, when I remember all that has gone wrong, and remember also all that has gone right, I feel sure we have no need to fear the tempest. Let it roar, and let it rage. We shall come through.
~ Erik Larson