Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Right and Wrong.

The repository contains 35 quotes in the category “Right and Wrong.”
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One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929 — 1968

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Josh Billings
1818 — 1885

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.

Chinese Proverb

If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.

Jules Renard
1864 — 1910

Oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

William Shakespeare
1564 — 1616

The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted.

The Bible

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

The Bible

Act so that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Immanuel Kant
1724 — 1804

No one is made guilty by fate.

Seneca
104? B.C. — 1065

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare
1564 — 1616

Measure for Measure

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

Necessity overrides every law.

Pope Innocent IV
1180? — 1254

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

Believing there’s no God means I can’t really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories.

Penn Jillette
1955 —     

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