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Quotes About Right

I believe morality is universal. Circumstances may alter the degree of blame, but not that an act is wrong.
~ Anne Perry
Love does forgive, but can it forgive everything? Should it? Which loyalties came first—family, or belief in right and wrong?
~ Anne Perry
You are on the threshold of a great journey, and you must begin to think in terms of what you can do as a powerful spiritual and biological being. Stop with the self-loathing. Stop with imagery of 'the damned' this and 'the damned' that! We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?
~ Anne Rice
Your soul is your inner being, your thinking, reasoning, loving, choosing inner being. Your capacity to stand up for what is right. Your capacity to fight against what is wrong. Your capacity to choose even to die for what you believe is right. That's your soul.
~ Anne Rice
To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." "So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." "An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.
~ Anne Rice
How many times have you, the magician, reached out for the lonely soul? You have no right to call those between life and death.
~ Anne Rice
People who speak with contempt for one another will probably not remain united for long. The most alarming rhetoric comes out of the dispute between liberals and conservatives, and it's a dangerous waste of time because they're both right.
~ Sebastian Junger
A fool's way is right in his own eyes, but whoever listens to counsel is wise. 16 A fool's displeasure is known at once, but whoever ignores an insult is sensible.
~ Selwyn Hughes
Why, the wrong is but a wrong i'th'world; and having the world for your labour, 'tis a wrong in your own world, and you might quickly make it a right.
~ Shakespeare, William
In the United States the rise of an extreme and highly ideological Right was driven by an unrelenting assault on liberals, portraying them as both "hating America" and hostile to business
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
You had every right to be afraid. But your bastard bitches were wrong. It won't be my son who destroys this pantheon. It is I! (Apollymi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .
~ Edward Gibbon
Tune into my new lifetime movie. 'Dislocated shoulder' airing right now.
~ Patrick Carney
Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.
~ Paulo Coelho
Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.
~ Robert Palmer
Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
~ Samuel Johnson
When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
~ Sophie Swetchine
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.
~ Jose Bergamin
The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to control the creative life of man.
~ Leonard Read
There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.' [said Halt]. 'How do you know which are the right ones?' Shigeru asked. Halt glanced at his two younger companions. They grinned and answered in chorus, 'You wait and see if you win.
~ John Flanagan
Sometimes, he thought wryly, a reputation for being right all the time could be a heavy burden.
~ John Flanagan
I am persuaded that I am in the right opinion, and I see no cause to recant; for all the filthiness and idolatry lies in the Church of Rome.
~ John Foxe
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
~ John G. Riefenbaker