Quotes about Right

It is Satan's purpose to steal the seed of truth from your heart by sending distracting thoughts... The difference between a Christian and a non-Christian is: though they both may have good and evil thoughts, Christ gives His followers strength to select the right rather than the wrong.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

The truth is I don't regret it. It was the right decision [not run for president] for my family, and the right decision for me.

Love trumps hate. Courage loves fear. Right always trumps wrong.

If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free...

If there is no objective morality then love is no better than murder.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions