Rightness Quotes

for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

In all that was to happen, there would be that feeling of inevitability and rightness, and the sense that the universe was conspiring in it. It would be easy.

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

If there is one thing I am, it's always right.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

You know, when you're right, that's all you get to be.

This is not the most right I've ever been.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.

Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

The revolution of the proletariat was inevitable, good Marxists believed, but if so, why were they so eager to enlist us in their cause? If it was going to happen anyway, it was going to happen with or without our help. But of course the inevitability that Marxists believe in is one that depends on the growth of the movement and all its political action. There were Marxists working very hard to bring about the revolution, and it was comforting to them to believe that their success was guaranteed in the long run. And some of them, the only ones that were really dangerous, believed so firmly in the rightness of their cause that they believed it was permissible to lie and deceive in order to further it. They even taught this to their children, from infancy. These are the "red-diaper babies," children of hardline members of the Communist Party of America, and some of them can still be found infecting the atmosphere of political action in left-wing circles, to the extreme frustration and annoyance of honest socialists and others on the left.

Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.

A law is valuable, not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

Whatever is, is right.