A right is not what someone gives you, it’s what no one can take away from you.
—Ramsey Clark (1927–2021) American Lawyer, Civil Rights Activist
For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
—Frederick William Faber (1814–63) British Hymn Writer, Theologian
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
—Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer
A president’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
—Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–73) American Head of State, Political leader
The Ten Commandments are not multiple choice
—Unknown
Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
—John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater
Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
—Latin Proverb
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
—J. Paul Getty (1892–1976) American Art Collector, Philanthropist, Businessperson
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
—Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer
We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
—Malcolm X (1925–65) American Civil Rights Leader
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
—Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
—Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author
True happiness comes from doing what’s right not just doing what makes you feel good.
—Unknown
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) English Biologist
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) English Writer, Poet
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
Right is its own defense.
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German Poet, Playwright, Theater Personality
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American Head of State, Lawyer
Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
—Frederick Douglass (1817–95) American Abolitionist, Author, Editor, Diplomat, Leader
Two wrongs do not make a right.
—Common Proverb
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
—David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) American Educator, Ichthyologist
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.
—Brigham Young (1801–77) American Mormon Leader
You can be right or you can be happy.
—Gerald Jampolsky (b.1925) American Psychiatrist
Never do wrong when people are looking.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.
—John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist
What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
—Common Proverb
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
—Golda Meir (1898–1978) Israeli Head of State
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (b.1940) American Self-Help Author
Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
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