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Quotes About Right

A young woman seeks sanctuary with us. It is not for us to deny her that right. Tell His Holiness that we will protect her with our lives and care for her until she is ready to leave." Not even Alexander VI can storm a convent and get away with it. The
~ Sarah Dunant
again, right? But how will they know to save us? Hmm. Yopopa's supposedly a genius. That's probably
~ Sarah Mlynowski
The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.
~ Saul Alinsky
What you do know is that there is one fact of Jewish life unchanged by the creation of a Jewish state: you cannot take your right to live for granted. Others can; you cannot. This is not to say that everyone else is living pleasantly and well under a decent regime. No, it means only that the Jews, because they are Jews, have never been able to take the right to live as a natural right.
~ Saul Bellow
The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with complete certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice
~ Saul D. Alinsky
Morality is primarily concerned with questions of right and wrong, the ability to distinguish between the two, and the justification of the distinction.
~ Scott B. Rae
Most people use the terms morality and ethics interchangeably. Technically, morality refers to the actual content of right and wrong, and ethics refers to the process of determining right and wrong. In other words, morality deals with moral knowledge and ethics with moral reasoning.
~ Scott B. Rae
The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you'd have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.
~ Scott Westerfeld
So my foolhardiness has produced the correct strategy, Count?" "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
~ Scott Westerfeld
And here I thought you were actually going to behave yourself," he said. "It's going to get worse if they don't keep their hands off you." "I suppose you're going to tell me now that only you have the right to touch me." "I see we understand each other.
~ Johanna Lindsey
Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and ready at command, to assist the feeble and friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to procure redress of wrongs, the advancement of right, to assert and maintain liberty and virtue, to discourage and abolish tyranny and vice?
~ John Adams
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
~ John Amery
People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don't much care about how well it works, just about how right it is … they may even like it better if it inflicts enough pain.
~ John Barnes
Bohr was inconsistent, unclear, wilfully obscure and right. Einstein was consistent, clear, down-to-earth and wrong.
~ John Bell
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
~ John Brunner
All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like this. I don't know if I can explain myself, but I used to use my brains as far as they went, and after they came to a blank wall I guessed, and I usually found my guesses pretty right.
~ John Buchan
no matter what evils they perpetrate, the enemies of Christ shall not prevail, because Christ sits at God's right hand, not for a time but in eternity. Therefore
~ John Calvin
Shall we, indeed, distinguish between right and wrong by that judgment which has been imparted to us, yet will there be no judge in heaven?
~ John Calvin
GOOD WILL YOU MARK BELOW ALL ALL RIGHT WITH LOVE AFTERWARDS WHY NOT SAY YES [ ] YES
~ John Crowley
A perfect image was like a gift of grace, but sin would always be swiftly punished. A sort of Calvinist dogma, where you never knew when you were right, but must be constantly vigilant against error.
~ John Crowley
From the individual doctor's perspective, it is far better to do whatever it takes to avoid litigation, even if it doesn't seem to be the right thing to do, than to risk entanglement in this crazy system.
~ John D. Lantos
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.
~ John Donne
Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.
~ John Donne