I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah BankheadIt is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: wrong actions justification
Can't it be stopped?" said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit where rocks weren't digging into her.
Maybe it can be stopped at the beginning," Maddy said. "If someone sees what's happening and is brave enough to reverse the direction."
Reverse the direction?"
Yes, turn it around."
How would you do that?"
You'd do something good," said Maddy. "Or at least you'd keep yourself from doing something bad."
But how could you?" said Lina. "When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?"
You wouldn't want to," said Maddy. "That's what makes it hard. you do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.
Tags: inspirational decisions wrong right choices
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
Robert BlochTags: inspiration good wrong right true
Had not enough gone wrong?
BromIf I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.
John Patrick ShanleyTags: evil religion good wrong right good-vs-evil
But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.
George OrwellDoing 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
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