Right And Wrong Quotes

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Jung

Mind, Wrong, Sense

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan Watts

Night, Wrong, Between

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.
Paul Ryan

Greatest, Person, Giving

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
James Madison

Political, Wrong, Opinion

We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.
Steven Tyler

Wrong, Moral, Everybody

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Two, Wrong, Between

There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!
Jimmy Smits

Work, Business, Job

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
Gary Oldman

Family, Good, Courage

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
Ed Miliband

Everything, Through, Try

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
Virgil

God, Human, Remember

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.
Randall Terry

Free, Wrong, Once

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
William Lloyd Garrison

Wrong, Opinion, Popular

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham

Happiness, Truth, Greatest

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.
LL Cool J

Wrong, Choice, Crossroads

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
Kelly Miller

Truth, Justice, Path

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.
Leif Garrett

Good, Power, Sleep

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
William J. Clinton

Life, Wife, Person

Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.
Benjamin Carson

God, Wrong, Sense

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?
Tony Campolo

Religion, Time, God

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
Fiona Apple

Music, True, Wrong

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham

Good, Greatest, Wrong

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.
Eliot Spitzer

Family, Wrong, Sense

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.
Corin Nemec

Life, Character, Real

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.
Jeffrey Kluger

Knowledge, Wrong, Between

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
Mark Hoppus

Parents, Pretty, Wrong

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
Joy Page

Good, Learning, Beautiful

I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
Curt Schilling

Understand, Wrong, Between

They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
Carl Hiaasen

Wrong, Sense, Door

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.
Mary MacLane

Wrong, Recognize

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
Randall Terry

God, Place, Wrong

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