Quotes
Quotes about Right
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the rights of the people by the gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." - H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the sinners who believe themselves righteous.
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
No humorist laughs at his own wheeze: A snuff-box has no right to sneeze.
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.
Tom Delay did bugs exterminate before he did kid soldiers terminate. Kissinger's Bremer has not been forthright about how many died in the last fortnight.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is on a locomotive headed right for me.
Adultery - Two wrong people doing the right thing.
Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!
