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

Two, Between, Rights

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.
Elayne Boosler

Tell, Married, Won

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
John Stuart Mill

Both, Sides, Deny

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
Jodi Picoult

Gay, Nothing, Different

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon

Hard, Try, Golf

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
Larry Elder

War, Stupid, Both

In economics, the majority is always wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics, Majority

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
Sitting Bull

Love, Father, Country

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Alexander Pope

Life, Faith, Fight

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone Weil

Beauty, Truth, Equality

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Life, Comfort, Happily

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
Mark Hyman

Life, Beauty, Lies

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
Bono

Mistakes, Made, Heroes

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.
Elizabeth Edwards

Marriage, Gay, Why

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
Robin Williams

Everything, Else, Left

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
Bo Bennett

Time, Saying, Avoiding

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
Carl Sandburg

Human, Saying, Before

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Muhammad Iqbal

Human, Ego, May

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
Thomas Fuller

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
George Soros

Mistakes, Human, Once

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
Johnny Ball

Life, Work, Age

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
Steve Martin

Might, Gentleman, Dignity

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
Elvis Presley

Training, Line, Along

I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.
Dolly Parton

Time, Hard, Mean

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
W. Somerset Maugham

Sentiment, Rubs

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
Billy Wilder

May, Together, Dark

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
Thomas Huxley

Freedom, Care, Anyone

To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong.
Hulk Hogan

Prayers, Vitamins

I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.
Sean Connery

Woman, Same, Though

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
Noel Coward

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