The great man with vigor should demand the rightness of things timeliness of action and propriety of method. In this way power does not degenerate into sheer force.
I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.
RIGHTEOUSNESS n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries …
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
We are not fighting for integration nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for … human rights.
The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere nor of his actions that they may be resolutehe simply speaks and does what is right.
All nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance direction which thou canst not see; All discord harmony not understood; All partial evil universal good; And spite of pride in erring reasons spite One truth is clear Whatever is is right.
If thats the price of getting together then Ill be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us then why should we wish them to survive? Nothing can make self-immolation proper. Nothing can give them the right to turn men into sacrificial animals. Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One cant be punished for being good. One cant be penalized for ability. If that is right then wed better start slaughtering one another because there isnt any right at all in the world!
I want to do the right thing but often I don?t know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself with its oceans and mountains and plains as something unfinished a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task?s undone but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don?t worry about my destiny.
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
This isnt right this isnt even wrong.
Dont take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
The great man with vigor should demand the rightness of things timeliness of action and propriety of method. In this way power does not degenerate into sheer force.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong you cannot be too conservative.
I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
RIGHTEOUSNESS n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries …
Try to know everything of something and something of everything.
To have a right to do a thing is not the same as to be right in doing it.
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.
Just because something is tradition doesnt make it right.’08-02-2010
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust.
Might does not make right; it only makes history.
Do whats right. Do it right. Do it right now.
If mankind had wished for what is right they might have had it long ago.
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
From the egg right to the apples. Ab ovo usque ad mala.
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative.
The two most important requirements for major success are: first being in the right place at the right time and second doing something about it.
We are not fighting for integration nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for … human rights.
The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere nor of his actions that they may be resolutehe simply speaks and does what is right.
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
All nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance direction which thou canst not see; All discord harmony not understood; All partial evil universal good; And spite of pride in erring reasons spite One truth is clear Whatever is is right.
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
If thats the price of getting together then Ill be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us then why should we wish them to survive? Nothing can make self-immolation proper. Nothing can give them the right to turn men into sacrificial animals. Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One cant be punished for being good. One cant be penalized for ability. If that is right then wed better start slaughtering one another because there isnt any right at all in the world!
Do what you feel in your heart to be right for youll be criticized anyway. Youll be damned if you do and damned if you dont.
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master unless he transforms his strength into right and obedience into duty.
Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. Ill meet you there.
I want to do the right thing but often I don?t know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself with its oceans and mountains and plains as something unfinished a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task?s undone but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don?t worry about my destiny.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isnt the will to do what is right.
Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong it adds shame to your defeat.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
The supreme test of a person is his ability to make things go right.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.