Quotes About Right

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The distinction between nature and convention is fundamental for classical political philosophy and even for most of modern political philosophy, as can be seen most simply from the distinction between natural right and positive right.

The Athenian cannot refute the atheists before he has stated their assertions. It appears that they assert that body is prior to soul or mind, or that soul or mind is derivative from body and, consequently, that nothing is by nature just or unjust, or that all right originates in convention. The refutation of them consists in the proof that soul is prior to body, which proof implies that there is natural right.

Above all, knowledge of the indefinitely large variety of notions of right and wrong is so far from being incompatible with the idea of natural right that is the essential condition for the emergence of that idea: realization of the variety of notions of right is the incentive for the quest for natural right.

Its status is rather like that of a painting of a perfectly beautiful human being, i.e., it is only by virtue of the painter's painting; more precisely, the just city is only "in speech": it "is" only by virtue of having been figured out with a view to justice itself or to what is by nature right on the one hand and the human all-too-human on the other.

This dichotomy between the spirits of Apollo and Dionysus suggests that the Greeks allegorically understood the different functions between the right and left brain.

Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right!

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The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one," Dr. Poblocki said. "When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.

I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Proving one's innocence is as improbable as going to Pluto fora honeymoon. It could take away everything you had in life, dearones, dreams, hopes and, most importantly, the right to have yourfreedom.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Reading is reclaiming the right to... human immortality, because the memory of writing is all-encompassing and limitless.