It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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BARRY MCCARTY What is wrong is wrong and what is right is right. If it is therefore wrong to do what is wrong, the...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
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KHUSHWANT SINGH The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
addresses, which amount only to complimen...
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PAUL HARRIS everything is right AND wrong. right or wrong only applies to this instant in time and is determined...
STEVE BULLOCK to be right in the wrong direction may be wrong; what then is the wrong direction?
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JOHN GRIERSON 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Anything which is morally wrong cannot be religiously, socially or politically right.
AMIT KALANTRI It is much better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right, because when errors are co...
RUSSELL ACKOFF In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, b...
ISAAC ROSENFELD Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ...
GERMANY KENT I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual pr...
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.
DR. PAUL TOURNIER Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong.
JON R. SIME We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in Count...
JACK LYNCH But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having
studied nature from his youth, knows the...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don...
PHILIP PULLMAN We were the ones that found it, which is pretty ridiculous in itself. The authorities, we don't feel...
SAMIL MALIK Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
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ALCEE HASTINGS Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to ...
LORD MORAN It's better to be slow and careful in the right direction than to be fast and careless on the wrong ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
MICHAEL ONDAATJE Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
DANIEL O'CONNELL Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
DANIEL O'CONNELL It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly info...
P.D. JAMES It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
JEREMY BENTHAM There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the apertu...
DR. CARL SAGAN It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave
fault to speak of matters on which we...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO It is better to travel on right road than the wrong way.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted f...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might ...
DONITA K. PAUL If someone can't accept the way you are, you probably are spending time with the wrong person.
VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we...
BARBARA HALL Wrong is wrong though everyone is doing it. Right is always right though no one is doing it. Be alar...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
{Said i...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Desire to always be on the right way no matter how tough it gets. A very slow movement on the right ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Right and wrong are very complicated; sometimes I get confused which one to follow.
M.F. MOONZAJER Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the mo...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev...
MARIE LU I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer ...
JOHN TUKEY In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
BILLY SUNDAY Nobody is wired wrong, because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.
HANNAH HART Nobody is wired wrong because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.
HANNAH HART Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises...
ANAIS NIN 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent...
NORMAN ANGELL It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent...
NORMAN ANGELL Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.
CARL SCHURZ Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when
wrong, to be put right!
CARL (KARL) SCHURZ Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right.
CARL SCHURZ It seems to be that a lot of the focus is on what can go wrong, not what can go right.
JEFF TJORNEHOJ Choose not to prove how wrong others are, but choose to show them on how to be right
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JOHN BROWNE We are in dangerous medical territory right now.
DAVE FLASKAS It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might...
G. K. CHESTERTON It is better to travel on the rough right road than smooth wrong way.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an inno...
RICHARD DAWKINS The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sens...
CARL SCHURZ I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
N. B.: ...
S. G. TALLENTYRE She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be ov...
WILLIAM GIBSON Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
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BILLY GRAHAM If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament rac...
ALVA MYRDAL All the research and experience tells us that education begins in our families of matters of right a...
JOHN WALTERS The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.
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