Right vs. Right, Right vs Right Quotes

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.

Many intellectuals in America and in Europe, they are in the habit of taking sides: who are the bad guys? who are the good guys? They launch a demonstration against the bad guys, sign a petition in favor of the good guys, and going to sleep feeling well about themselves. This is not the case here. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a tragedy; it is a clash between right and right.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a tragedy; it is a clash between right and right. And, therefore it's not black and white. Sometimes, recently it is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was.

I love feelings that are universal, things that tie every single person on this earth together. I think we all battle between what we know is right and what we feel is right every single day, and as much as that can be difficult it's absolutely human.

Don't try and do the right thing, because there is no right thing; there's just the right thing for you.

The whole point is to accommodate one right with another. Yes, that will leave some people disappointed, even angry, but the idea of the Constitution is to promote freedom, not to make everyone happy.