Difference Between Right And Wrong Quotes

#1. I am in favor of hanging the Ten Commandments in every schoolroom in the country so young people can know the difference between right and wrong. They don't know the difference and we're seeing the evidence of that all around us every day.

Billy Graham

#2. I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'
Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods
Good and Evil.

Graham Greene

#3. A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.

Andy Stanley

#4. And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.

Anne Holm

#5. Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

Joseph Campbell

#7. It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

Kamisese Mara

#8. Then you haven't lost your soul. Only a creature with a soul can tell the difference between right and wrong. Yes, you've made mistakes, but you feel guilt. You feel remorse. And if you still have your soul, you haven't lost your chance at redemption.

Sylvain Reynard

#9. What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.

Jeanne DuPrau

#10. Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.

Jeffrey Kluger

#11. The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

George W. Bush

#12. What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

Lisa Scottoline

#13. There is a difference between right and wrong, always was and always will be, but each man's wrong and each man's right are different.

Peter Matthiessen

#14. I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

Robert Vaughn

#15. He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

George R R Martin

#16. Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.

Charles Spurgeon

#17. Truly, the world is in need of moral leadership ... that teaches the difference between right and wrong and teaches us to forgive one another even as we are forgiven by our Father in heaven.

Billy Graham

#18. I don't consider myself a moral man. I do not philosophize about life or bother with laws and principles that govern most people. I do not pretend to know the difference between right and wrong. But I do live by a certain kind of code. And somethimes, I think, you have how to shoot first.

Tahereh Mafi

#19. The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.

Patrick Henry

#20. A person of character knows the difference between right and wrong and always tries to do the right thing for the right reason.

Michael Josephson

#21. I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.

Harvey Pekar

#22. Knowing the difference between right and wrong sometimes did not serve to clarify much of anything. Just because a man is able to draw his line in the sand, it doesn't mean he'll know what to do when his only course of action requires crossing it.

Graham Moore

#23. At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

Stephen E. Ambrose

#24. In order to be good, you must recognize the difference between right and wrong and strive to choose the right. To be truly evil you must do the contrary. Being good or evil is a choice.

Brandon Mull

#25. Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.

Kirk Cameron

#26. Half a thou too small," he said. "The difference between Right and Wrong. Half a thou bigger, and it'ld be Right. As it is, it's Wrong, and you can't cheat about it." He smiled again. "Too bad when God gives you the mind of an Inspector, isn't it?

Nevil Shute

#27. People who know the difference between right and wrong do the wrong thing all the time. You know why? Because they can.

Dennis Prager

#28. I know the difference between right and wrong. Right is when I do everything he tells me to. Wrong is when I question why. But every now and then a simple slap across the side of the head is a good way to remind me. - excerpt from: freefalling

Darlenne Susan Girard

#29. The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.

Johan Cruijff

#30. As a boy when his mother told him to listen to the voice inside him to help him tell the difference between right and wrong, nothing happened. He concluded that "either I was too wicked to have a conscience or too good to need one".

Julian Jaynes

#31. It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong.

Jim Butcher

#32. There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Orison Swett Marden

#33. While we are seeking for pure love, good life, and a reason to live,
We sometimes forget key things in life.
And that is the ability to see what is the difference between
What is wrong and what is right.

The Eldest

#34. Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#35. I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?

Lou Reed

#36. The difference between the right spouse and the wrong spouse is the difference between a soul mate and a cell mate.

R.A. Mathis

#37. It is Satan's purpose to steal the seed of truth from your heart by sending distracting thoughts ... The difference between a Christian and a non-Christian is: though they both may have good and evil thoughts, Christ gives His followers strength to select the right rather than the wrong.

Billy Graham

#38. There is a difference between legitimate issues of character - someone's behavior - and the issue of whether someone who has done something wrong in their life, now because of those mistakes, can't talk about what is the right thing to do.

Rick Santorum

#39. You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

Abraham Lincoln

#40. There's a difference between the 'art' of writing and the 'craft' of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, but craft is objective. There is a right way and a wrong way to craft.

Gerard De Marigny

#41. One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

John Taylor Gatto

#42. The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman is this: The one thinks everything right that is French, while the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

William Hazlitt

#43. A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.

Atul Gawande

#44. There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

Lisa Randall