Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Right

Right

The best words for resolving a disagreement are, "I could be wrong; I often am." It's true.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Copernicus … did not publish his book [on the nature of the solar system] until he was on his deathbed. He knew how dangerous it is to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.--Thomas Brackett Reed (speech at Waterville, Maine 7/30/1885)
Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?'. Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?'. Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?'. But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'. And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ("To Chart Our Course for the Future")
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.--Mark Twain
Every man has the right to be wrong in his opinions, but no man has the right to wrong in his facts.--Bernard Baruch (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.--Mignon McLaughlin
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.-Mark Twain (What is Man)
Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all.--Benjamin Franklin
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.--William Jennings Bryan (Speech, Democratic National Convention, Chicago 7/8/1896)
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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.--Abraham Lincoln
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.--Lillian Hellman
I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right--then go ahead.--Davy Crockett
If a man has acted right, he has done well, though alone; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.--Henry Fielding
In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.--Martin Niemoeller
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.--Henry David Thoreau (Civil Disobedience)
It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.--James Freeman Clark (in Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book)
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.--Abraham Lincoln (Address at Cooper Union, New York, February 27, 1860)
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.--Peter Marshall
A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong--acting the part of a good man or a bad.--Plato (Apology)
The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life--the children; those who are in the twilight of life--the aged; and those who are in the shadows of life--the sick, the needy and the handicapped.--Hubert Humphrey (speech, 1977)
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.--Theodore Hesburgh
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.--Daniel O'Connell
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.--John Stuart Mill
The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.--Seneca
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.--Josh Billings
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.--Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.--William Penn
Right is right only when entire.--Victor Hugo (Les Miserables, tr. By Wilbour)
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.--William J. H. Boetcker
There is always time to make right what is wrong.--Susan Griffin
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.--Alan W. Watts
The time is always right to do what is right.--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be in the right is often an expensive business.--Phyllis Bottome (Danger Signals)
To be outspoken when truth is under attack, when charity is being bruise, or when important issues of life are at stake is a good and courageous thing. To be outspoken when nothing is at stake except the feelings of someone else is a small and contemptible thing.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
To discover that something has been wrong is not necessarily to make it right.--Sally Kempton
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.--Ogden Nash
To the wrongs that need resistance,
To the right that needs assistance,
To the future in the distance,
Give yourselves.--Carrie Chapman Catt
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.--General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right and we made a difference.--Geraldine A. Ferraro
We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.--William Hazlitt (Characteristics)
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.--Bodie Thoene (Warsaw Requiem)
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong--or absolutely right.--Albert Guinon
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.--Pearl S. Buck ("My Neighbor's Son" To My Daughters With Love)