All Quotes By Tag: Right
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
“Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I’ve discarded a belief in right and wrong.””But the Almighty determines what is right!””Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality — which answers only to my heart — is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.”
“They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice… That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
“What I should have done verses what I wanted to do can be described as two different paths. The first takes me to where I want to be, while the second took me to where I thought I wanted to be.”
“[…] every decent man confronted by a totalitarian regime ought to have the pluck to commit high treason.”
“Wherefore also Cleanthes, in the second book, On Pleasure, says that Socrates everywhere teaches that the just man and the happy are one and the same, and execrated the first man who separated the just from the useful, as having done an impious thing. For those are in truth impious who separate the useful from that which is right’ according to the law.”
“If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.”
“… what you think is right isn’t the same as knowing what is right.”
“Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.”
“There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that are right, or at the very least they lie in the veil of between. I on the other hand, do not belong to any group. I don’t exist. It’s not that I don’t have substance; I have a body like everyone else. I can feel the fire when it burns against my skin, the rain when it caresses my face and the breeze as it fingers my hair. I have all the senses that other people do. I am just empty, inside.”
“IN THE HANDS OF MANHe who creates a poison, also has the cure.He who creates a virus, also has the antidote.He who creates chaos, also has the ability to create peace.He who sparks hate, also has the ability to transform it to love.He who creates misery, also has the ability to destroy it with kindness.He who creates sadness, also has the ability to to covert it to happiness.He who creates darkness, can also be awakened to produce illumination.He who spreads fear, can also be shaken to spread comfort.Any problems created by the left hand of man,Can also be solved with the right,For he who manifests anything,Also has the ability toDestroy it.”
“It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.”
“Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”
“In the midst of happiness or despairin sorrow or in joyin pleasure or in pain:Do what is right and you will be at peace.”
“What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right.”