Top 100 Quotes About Right And Wrong
#1. Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse
Ellen Ullman
#2. The Holy Spirit will teach you, how to distinguish between right and wrong doctrines
Sunday Adelaja
#3. If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.
Dalai Lama
#4. 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
#5. Who's the best person you know. Of all the people you know personally, is there anyone who has a sense of right and wrong and lives by it? This was a sticky question because it would have to be Ranger ... but I suspected he occasionally killed people. Only bad people, of course, but still ...
Janet Evanovich
#6. The truth is, the best win-lost records are not built on great trial work. They are built on cherry-picking only the strongest cases for trial and pleading out the rest, regardless of the right and wrong of it.
William Landay
#7. Intuition is the highest form of knowledge. What we learn from others can be mistaught by those not a fraction as knowledgeable as they pretend or by those who are propagandists with agendas. We are born with intuition, however, which includes the natural law, a sense of right and wrong.
Dean Koontz
#8. Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.
Rebecca Walker
#9. Cheerleaders are simultaneously everything that is right and wrong with the world.
Dov Davidoff
#10. In our hearts, we always know what's right and wrong. That's not the struggle. The struggle is wanting what's wrong for you and gauging whether or not the consequences are worth it.
Penelope Douglas
#11. For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
Tammy Bruce
#12. Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.
Mira Grant
#13. People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to be wrong, we ignore them. They are typically right and wrong about half the time.
Eugene Fama
#14. But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient.
Jim Butcher
#15. In love, everyone does things that hurt the other person, so there really is no "Right" and "Wrong". You just have to decide what you're willing to forgive
Yvonne Wood
#16. Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#17. As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right , a dilemma none of us who wanted participate in history could escape.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#18. Young people are not tabulae rasae. They have a sense of right and wrong. But if they're repeatedly exposed to certain themes, they are more likely to pick them up, to internalize them and have them become part of their sexual scripts.
Peggy Orenstein
#19. Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong - or fairness versus unfairness - that we are used to, we can compare the habit to distraction during meditation.
Sharon Salzberg
#20. There was a time when man stood strong, right was right and wrong was wrong.
Ted Nugent
#21. You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.
Oliver Hardy
#22. It is easy to decide between right and wrong but it is difficult to decide between what is right and what is more right
Devdutt Pattanaik
#23. Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.
Franz Grillparzer
#24. I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.
Leif Garrett
#25. He operated by Old World rules, the blurring of right and wrong into whatever you could get away with;
Jonathan Franzen
#26. When you start replacing facts with feelings, you disturb the equilibrium between right and wrong, confusing them as one and the same while encouraging more destructive behavior. As a stigma is erased, a behavior becomes more prevalent.
Greg Gutfeld
#27. ..fresh friends from completely different worlds faced with the hard shapings of truth and deceit, of right and wrong, and of the equivalent damage when high expectations and low expectations are devastatingly unmet.
Christopher Scotton
#28. Parents have bought into the world's pastimes chock-full of pop culture, and it is searing the souls of our children. Parents have allowed electronic babysitters to infiltrate their homes and minds; young people's sense of right and wrong is being choked by wild and rank weeds in a moral wasteland.
Billy Graham
#29. I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
William J. Clinton
#30. He knew from his own studies that if a child wasn't taught right and wrong from a very early age, the behaviour would never truly improve.
Christopher G. Nuttall
#31. The most common reason that I turn down a film project is because of my schedule. If I can't devote the time to a score that it deserves, I'll pass. I'll also turn down a film if its moral position is different than what my own understanding of right and wrong.
John Keltonic
#32. Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.
Brian Greene
#33. I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
Kelly Miller
#34. Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world
and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil, etc.
Ken Ham
#35. It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.
V.S. Naipaul
#36. Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.
Hafez
#37. The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.
Jon Voight
#38. Because apart we might be as different as night and day, black and white, right and wrong, but together we create two sides of a whole. Together we balance.
Jessica Brody
#39. There's no right and wrong anymore. Just living and dying.
Molly Looby
#40. And you know that voice in your head that tells you not to do wrong? I have one of those, but it doesn't give a shit about right and wrong when someone upsets her.
Suzanne Wright
#41. When people start talking about Right and Left, they stop talking about right and wrong.
J.S.B. Morse
#42. A fool is he that comes to preach or prate,
When men with swords their right and wrong debate.
[It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa,
Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]
Torquato Tasso
#43. I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I'm interested in politics in that I'm a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can't get into the ins and outs of it.
Ewan McGregor
#44. We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.
Roxane Gay
#45. The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.
Zhuangzi
#46. When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.
Robert Knepper
#47. On and on the Great River rolls, racing east.
Of proud and gallant heros its white-tops leave no trace,
As right and wrong, pride and fall at once unreal
Yet ever the green hill stay
To blaze in the west-waning day ...
Luo Guanzhong
#48. In a black and white world, Chase and I would never end up together - our mothers had ensured that - but in that small bathroom, under the harsh fluorescent lights, we dragged each other deeper into the gray - the messy, guilt-ridden space that sat between right and wrong.
R.S. Grey
#49. 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
#50. Because life's dictates did not allow for quick and easy distinctions between right and wrong or good and bad. Choices were made between shades of gray, and there was healing and harm to be weighed on both sides of each.
Terry Brooks
#51. There's a part of me that recognizes him on a cellular level, a part that seeks his comfort and solace, that feels more than comfortable in his arms. And when he stares at me with that deep penetrating gaze of his, my body reacts in all the right, and wrong, ways.
Siobhan Davis
#52. He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#53. Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority.
R.C. Sproul
#54. Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
Peter Shaffer
#55. I can't change what happened. If I'm honest, I don't want to. I won't regret it. I'll keep those memories trapped in a bubble away from labels of good and bad and right and wrong
Sara Grant
#56. 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
#57. I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.
Aristotle.
#58. Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.
Janet Morris
#59. I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black and white or right and wrong.
Graham Elliot
#60. Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
Sam Harris
#61. Keep in mind that right and wrong are not matters of opinion. They are principles we must discover and apply. They are laws of biology for intelligent species
Richard J. Maybury
#62. Each of the sapiens brains generates its own perception of God in uniquely different ways. Ergo, it imposes different qualities of meaning and value on God. You see God the way your brain wants you to see it. There is no right and wrong, or fact and fiction on this matter. It is all personal.
Abhijit Naskar
#63. Being over there changes a man. Right and wrong don't look so different anymore to some.
M.L. Stedman
#64. Right and wrong stood for him as immutable as the two poles. He had never wandered in that twilight country where the nuances of evil and good cast their perplexing shadows.
P.D. James
#65. 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
#66. If our children grow up with no understanding of right and wrong ... no desire to live with integrity ... no faith in God ... their souls will be impoverished and they will miss life's highest good.
Billy Graham
#67. And it never occurs to anyone to admit a greatness that is not commensurate with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable puniness.
Leo Tolstoy
#68. Materialists thereby deny the reality of mind (while they use their minds to advance materialism), determinists deny the reality of human choice (while they choose determinism), and relativists deny the fact of right and wrong (while they judge you if you disagree).
Nancy Pearcey
#69. What if choices were not viewed as right and wrong, but instead as just a variety of life experiences?
Staci Bartley
#70. Without the sense that individuals are responsible for their own actions, and that there are appropriate consequences to violating society's most basic values, the concepts of morality and right and wrong become meaningless. And then you have no society.
Mark Olshaker
#71. I learn from everything I do, right and wrong. I think it helps me grow as a writer and a person.
Darynda Jones
#72. It was right and wrong both. Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity, joy and heartbreak.
Jandy Nelson
#73. I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
John Locke
#74. Right and wrong aren't dropped from the sky. We. We make them. Against misery. Invariably, Harry, invariably
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misery follows their disobedience. Not our own, often at first not our own.
John Updike
#75. There is an "offense" to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.
Philip Yancey
#76. What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?
Sam Harris
#77. The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.
Pema Chodron
#79. Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.
John Owen
#80. Walking in darkness didn't mean having to become one with it, did it? Could we not live with our inner natures without embracing the true evil we all are privy to? Humans are no less evil than the worst of vampires at times. Surely right and wrong couldn't be so perfectly cut and dried.
Trina M. Lee
#81. Right and wrong applies to internet interaction.
David Chiles
#82. 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
#83. Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.
John Dall
#84. 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
#85. We needed resentment, he said, as it was resentment which identified and underlined the wrong. Without these reactive attitudes, we ran the risk of diminishing our sense of right and wrong, because we could end up thinking it just doesn't matter.
Alexander McCall Smith
#86. The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.
Sengcan
#87. The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, All things are permitted.
William Lane Craig
#89. 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
#90. The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.
F. Sionil Jose
#92. Some day ... after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#93. Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.
Janet Morris
#94. People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
Joy Page
#95. The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.
John Muir
#96. Beyond acts of right and wrong, those who journey negatively live possitively after and those who journey possitively after
Mpho Leteng
#97. I shook my head, trying to make sense out of what had happened. As before, no sense came. I completely lost every sense of right and wrong and good and bad. I became this black, suffocating thing, everything I feared in others. I became Javier. I became my father.
Karina Halle
#98. 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
#99. Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.
Billy Graham
#100. I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.
Peter Krause
