The repository contains 35 quotes in the category “Right and Wrong.”
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Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.
Dennis Miller
1953 —
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.
There is nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
Milton Friedman
1912 — 2006
To educate a man in mind and not morals is to educate a menace to society.
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t 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
Everyone has eternal life. The question is, where are you going to spend it?
While the forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
When I’m caught between two evils, I generally take the one I’ve never tried before.
Mae West
1893 — 1980
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Forbidden fruit is responsible for many a bad jam.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
1835 — 1910
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Goethe
1749 — 1832
Have you ever known a time when there was so much talk about ethics -- or so little practice of it?
Thomas Sowell
1930 —
Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
There is no right way to do wrong.
It is better to be roughly right than to be precisely wrong.
John Maynard Keynes
1883 — 1946
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
Steven Wright
1955 —
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
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