The repository contains 35 quotes in the category Right and Wrong.
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If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me wont amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
President Abraham Lincoln
1809 1865
Oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare
1564 1616
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William Shakespeare
1564 1616
Measure for Measure
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Goethe
1749 1832
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
1835 1910
Have you ever known a time when there was so much talk about ethics -- or so little practice of it?
Thomas Sowell
1930
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
H. L. Mencken
1880 1956
Consience is the mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
H. L. Mencken
1880 1956
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929 1968
When Im caught between two evils, I generally take the one Ive never tried before.
Mae West
1893 1980
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
Victor Frankl
1905 1997
There is nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
Milton Friedman
1912 2006
Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.
Dennis Miller
1953
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Josh Billings
1818 1885
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. Chesterton
1874 1936
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas De Quincey
1785 1859
Man is an intellectual giant but a moral dwarf.
Temptation usually comes in through a door that has deliberately been left open.
Act so that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant
1724 1804
To educate a man in mind and not morals is to educate a menace to society.
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