Quotations about

Right

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

—Ignazio Silone

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing.

—Peace Pilgrim

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.

—Wolfgang Pauli

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

—Mark Twain

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

—Franz Kafka

If this ever goes anywhere, it will be because it’s right: right time, right intentions, right everything.

—Steph Campbell in Depths

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

—Isaac Asimov

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are usually right.

—Eugene V. Debs

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

—Voltaire

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

—G. K. Chesterton

That time of day when the sun hasn't come up yet, but you can already feel it coming. It's an elusive warmth, like a subtle promise whispered in your ear and you can go on with your day knowing you've been given another chance to get it right.

—Cassia Leo in Relentless

Laws bind us. But it is important to remember the law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong.

—Marilyn Manson

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

—Samuel Goldwyn

In a quarrel, each side is right.

—Yiddish folk saying

Never answer a critic, unless he's right.

—Bernard Baruch