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Quotes About Right

Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.
~ John Goodwin
But things can change, that's what I told myself. Mistakes can be undone, wrongs righted. That's what brought me home. Hope.
~ John Hart
We all agree your theory is crazy. What divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being right."* { Niels Bohr }
~ John Kehoe
Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.
~ John L. Lewis
we see how labour could make men distinct titles to several parcels of it, for their private uses; wherein there could be no doubt of right, no room for quarrel.
~ John Locke
though men had a right to appropriate, by their labour, each one to himself, as much of the things of nature as he could use:
~ John Locke
equality which all men are in, in respect of jurisdiction or dominion one over another; which was the equality I there spoke of, as proper to the business in hand, being that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man.
~ John Locke
One thing groupies will never understand is that they all start blending together. There is nothing unique about them and yet they all think they are the right one for me. I know the right one for me and her name is Tina and no matter how our paths come together and divide us as the years pass. She is and will always be the one for me.
~ John McNerney
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He watched her retreat, his eyes lazy, and his body unmoving. A trickle of blood seeped slowly from the corner of his mouth. He let her get nearly out of the room before he spoke, "I may not have the right, Silence, me love," he drawled so soft she nearly didn't catch the words. "But I would've listened to ye. I would've believed ye.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
What's new today is how far into the mainstream many of those themes have penetrated—or to put it more precisely, how far to the right the whole political current has shifted. The New Hate is the same as the Old Hate—only now it's hiding in plain sight.
~ Arthur Goldwag
Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher's 'freedom to print'; it is, rather, the citizen's 'right to know.
~ Arthur Hays Sulzberger
peace without victory for the right; a peace designed to let wrong triumph; a peace championed in neutral countries by the apostles of timidity and greed.
~ Arthur Herman
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
~ Arthur Miller
the potter forms his vessels for himself. Let man strive with his Maker as he will, the fact remains that he is nothing more than clay in the Heavenly Potter's hands, and while we know that God will deal justly with His creatures, that the Judge of all the earth will do right, nevertheless, He shapes His vessels for His own purpose and according to His own pleasure.
~ Arthur W. Pink
This man," they complained, "performs none of the three duties132 required of the monks of this monastery. He has no right to enjoy the food and alms offered in religion to the Sa?gha. We must drive him away!
~ ??ntideva
He did not know what resignation meant. He who resigned, he thought, lost his right to live.
~ August Kubizek
The only teaching possible is to show a man how to learn from his own wisdom, and to utilise his ignorance and mistakes: not by obscuring his vision and intention by ideas of 'right' and 'wrong'.73
~ Austin Osman Spare
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
~ Author Unknown
In contrast to rigidity, tension is not good or bad. it has to be present at the right time in the right amount. Weighing or balancing it evenly is life. There is nothing in this world where yogis say there should be no tension at all. Even dead bodies have tension. You have to find the right amount of tension in your body. The right amount will keep all of your energy in your body. Too much tension is aggression.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Right pain is not only constructive but also exhilarating and involves challenge, while wrong pain is destructive and causes excruciating suffering.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
The greatest enjoyment possible to man was that which this philosophy promises its votaries--the pleasure of being always right, and always reasoning--without ever being bound to look at anything.
~ bagehot walter ix
Rangers are a huge club with ambition and I know this is the right fit for me to progress my career.
~ Kemar Roofe
I'm rarely wrong.
~ Eileen Atkins