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Right & Wrong |
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Quotations
 | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 29 likes |
 | The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 27 likes |
 | Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 22 likes |
 | Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 20 likes |
 | When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 19 likes |
 | Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 18 likes |
 | Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 17 likes |
 | Nothing is wrong if it makes you happy. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 14 likes |
 | Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 13 likes |
 | Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 13 likes |
| My specialty is being right when other people are wrong. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 8 likes |
| Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 8 likes |
 | Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 7 likes |
 | To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 7 likes |
 | There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 6 likes |
 | You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 5 likes |
 | If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist 5 likes |
| The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 4 likes |
| There is no such dichotomy as “human rights” versus “property rights.” No human rights can exist without property rights. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
 | When everything has to be right, something isn't. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 4 likes |
 | In France, the first political principle is: everything you do is wrong and will remain wrong until it is me who does it. — André Frossard, 1915-1995, French politician & essayist 4 likes |
| There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it—it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it—you don't know what right is and you're not a man. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
| The Superior Man is aware of righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 3 likes |
 | I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 3 likes |
 | When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 3 likes |
 | Wisdom and knowledge exist so we can distinguish right from wrong. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. — Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher 3 likes |
 | Vice and virtue must look much the same to one who calls the whole world “nice”. — Martial, 43-104 AD, Roman poet of epigrams 2 likes |
 | One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 2 likes |
 | Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 2 likes |
 | A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking. — Malcolm de Chazal, 1902-1981, Mauritian thinker & aphorist 2 likes |
 | He who thinks he is always right is always wrong in that first. — Gilbert Cesbron, 1913-1979, French writer 2 likes |
 | There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. — Bill Clinton, 1946-, American President [1992-2000] 1 likes |
 | We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong. |
 | We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong. |
 | The man who says “I may be wrong, but...” does not believe there can be any such possibility. |
 | There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. |
 | Don’t take my demons away, because my angels may flee too. |
 | You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait! |
| The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. |
| If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago. |
 | If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. |
 | Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. |
 | Consider again and again the following: the right time, the right friends, the right place, the right means of income, the right ways of spending, and from whom you derive your power. |
 | In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right. |
 | The majority is never right, unless it includes me. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun. |
 | No action is good or bad in itself. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad. |
 | To benefit from avoiding a wrong is a way of being guilty. |
 | When you are sure you are right, you don't need to argue with those who are wrong. |
Personal Stories
 | When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 7 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | I see what is better, and approve it, but I follow the worse. Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 41 likes |
 | The king can do no wrong. Rex non potest peccare. 34 likes |
| Abuse does not cancel use. Abusus non tollit usum. (misuse of something is no argument against its proper use) 23 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 4 likes |
 | One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 3 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 7 likes |
 | I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong. — Sam Goldwyn, 1879-1974, American film producer 6 likes |
 | The worst-tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong. — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 6 likes |
 | She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. — Mae West, 1893-1980, American actress 3 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | If it’s not right, don’t do it; if it’s not true, don’t say it. Ει μη καθήκει, μη πράξης· ει μη αληθές εστι, μη είπης. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor 45 likes |
 | Refrain from evil not out of fear, but because it is right. Μη δια φόβον, αλλά δια το δέον απέχεσθε αμαρτημάτων. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 28 likes |
 | The “right” is nothing more than what benefits the powerful. Το δίκαιον ουκ άλλο τι ή του κρείττονος ξυμφέρον. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 25 likes |
| A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something. Αδικεί πολλάκις ο μη ποιών τι, ου μόνον ο ποιών τι. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations IX, 5 14 likes |
| One who thinks right is better than myriads who think wrong. Εις ευ φρονών μυρίων μη φρονούντων κρείττων εστί. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 13 likes |
Proverbs
 | Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. 6 likes |
 | Two wrongs don't make a right. 6 likes |
