How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?
Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
What’s the use you learning to do right when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
We have never made a gain, in civil rights, without pressure.
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
To do a great right, do a little wrong.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Right and wrong are the rules we make up ourselves so that we can play in the game with other people. Without rules, there can’t be a game. But never forget—the rules are artificial.
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that, somewhere and somehow, one is right.
My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.
