Right Quotes - page 10

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. View quote
Aldous Huxley
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. View quote
Jean Cocteau
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future. View quote
Max Planck
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. View quote
Voltaire
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. (Abraham Lincoln)
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us. View quote
Jef Raskin
Only the sinner has the right to preach. View quote
Christopher Morley
I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails. View quote
Milan Kundera
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. View quote
Isaac Newton
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. (Tony Blair)
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. View quote
Josh Billings
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. View quote
John F. Kennedy
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life. View quote
Ronald Reagan
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will. View quote
Ronald Reagan