Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
Jodi PicoultTags: self-sacrifice wrong right
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 TwainTags: wisdom man wrong right recovery inferiority
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
Alain de BottonTags: love health wrong right attraction pathology
And right action is freedom from past and future also.
For most of us, this is the aim never to be realized. Who are only undefeated because we have gone on trying. "The Dry Salvages
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
John Maynard KeynesWhat's right isn't what's worked.
Toba BetaTags: difference wrong right worked
Be always sure you are right, then go ahead.
David CrockettTags: right davy-crockett
Everybody is right when there are no wrongs.
Santosh KalwarJust because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."
"But the Almighty determines what is right!"
"Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.
Tags: morality ethics belief religion heart punishment humanism wrong right retribution altruism
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.
L.M. MontgomeryTags: truth wrong right gossip
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