Quotes About Rights And Wrongs

#1. There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

Douglas Hurd

#2. It is not possible to debate the balance between privacy and security, including the rights and wrongs of intrusive powers, without also understanding the threats.

Theresa May

#3. I'm too old to figure out the rights and wrongs of everything.

Barbara Else

#4. Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

Philip James Bailey

#5. Jan knew it was pointless to ponder the rights and wrongs of Greta's decision, for the decision had been made and they were on their way to a foreign city. He would just have to make the best of things, for all their sakes. He tried to turn his attention to more practical matters, ...

Joanne Owen

#6. Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.

George Orwell

#7. We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

Philip Pullman

#8. We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence.

Philip Pullman

#9. Some were Charter Mages, and there would not be time to argue rights and wrongs, so any aggressive magic he used would be countered or negated by these others, as was the nature of Charter Magic.

Garth Nix

#10. All decisions we've come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable.

John-Talmage Mathis

#11. What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists, and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs?

John Le Carre

#12. I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.

Nita Ambani

#13. Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

John Green

#14. Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

E.W. Howe

#15. In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

Mary Ritter Beard

#16. Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

Pamela Yates

#17. I don't want to put the world to rights ... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.

Lee Child

#18. The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

John L. Lewis

#19. If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

Oliver Herford

#20. I'm passionate about gay rights, but I think we need admit that there are some gay wrongs as well.

Dov Davidoff

#21. Two wrongs' create an additional problem.
'A wrong' plus 'A right' creates a remorse.
'Two rights' create a solution.

Emmanuel Aghado

#22. A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.

Orrin Woodward

#23. Rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#24. I know some teachers say that you shouldn't display the psychic powers and other powers referred to as the siddhas, but as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't really matter. There are no absolute rights or wrongs in spiritual practice

Frederick Lenz

#25. Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to set us to rights again? Who better to love us through the fire and refine us into something beautiful and useful despite our wrongs?

Francine Rivers

#26. Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

P. J. O'Rourke

#27. By all rights I should be dead. No by all wrongs I should be dead. All I wanted was the world. I didn't know it would cost so much to get it.

Carroll Devine

#28. The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours is a patients' bill of rights.

Edward Kennedy

#29. Life doesn't always give us a choice between right and wrong. Occasionally, we are forced to choose between two rights or two wrongs...

Assegid Habtewold

#30. What is wrong is wrong and what is right is right. If it is therefore wrong to do what is wrong, then it is absolutely right to do what is right! Do what is right and be right in what you do!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#31. The problem with today's culture is that we have too many rights and not enough wrongs.

Ron Brackin

#32. Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes.
(from Behind the White Brick)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#33. My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.

Jose De San Martin

#34. I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

Benjamin Butler

#35. There are never any rules, rights, or wrongs in imagining--- imagining just is.

Pamela Zagarenski

#36. Two wrongs do not make a right; but three rights make a left.

George Lopez

#37. I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs.

Caroline Norton

#38. One problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.

Ron Brackin

#39. The world is a grey place. A place of half-truths. Of half-wrongs and half-rights. Yet there are things worth fighting for, and they must be pursued with all our vigour and commitment. Half-measures achieve nothing.' 'What

Joe Abercrombie

#40. Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.

Khalil Gibran

#41. Rights can be considered wrongs, depending on who is judging.

Suzy Kassem

#42. As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

Peter Mullan

#43. Sometimes great rights must be stitched from little wrongs.

Joe Abercrombie

#44. It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous.

James Russell Lowell