Right Quotes

How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.[Хорошо ли, дурно ли, но разломать иногда что‑нибудь тоже очень приятно.]

To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.[Соврать по-своему – ведь это почти лучше, чем правда по одному по-чужому.]

Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.

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 do a great right, do a little wrong.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The feeling of the law, the satisfaction of being right, the joy of selfesteem, cher Monsieur, are powerful incentives to keep us upright or make us move forward. On the other hand, if you deprive men of them, you transform them into dogs frothing with rage.[Le sentiment du droit, la satisfaction d’avoir raison, la joie de s’estimer soi-même, cher monsieur, sont des ressorts puissants pour nous tenir debout ou nous faire avancer. Au contraire, si vous en privez les hommes, vous les transformez en chiens écumants.]

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.