Quotes about Right
How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
— Watchman Nee
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Therefore God's universal law gave to the man despotic power over his female in due awe, not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.
— John Milton
Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.
— John Quincy Adams
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?
— Henry David Thoreau
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
— Henry David Thoreau
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
— James Madison
Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.
— Jerry Falwell
The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.
— Malcolm X