Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
When things go wrong, don’t go with them.
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.]
Right and wrong, however, are for – well, not unhappy people, maybe, but scarred people; scared people.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.[Il est dangereux d’avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrédités ont tort.]
I doubt not, but from self-evident propositions, by necessary consequences, as incontestable as those in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was “but we’ve always done it this way.” A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?
Whatever CAN go wrong WILL go wrong.
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?
