Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

Good and bad, right and wrong, truth and deception, it all depends on your state of mind.

True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most...

It sounded so proper to lie for the sake of a beloved.

Sometimes it isn’t easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn’t turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

…Next time you’re faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position – a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course,...

I did the wrong thing, and I lost him for real.But did you do the wrong thing? Jamie thinks it was the wrong thing. But do you?No. I don’t.I didn’t do what Jamie would have...

The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.

As a rule,I believe people shouldn’t follow rules;rules should follow people.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

I’m too old to figure out the rights and wrongs of everything.

It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.

Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.

But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.

All decisions we’ve come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable.

There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love.

But Anja. I hear Anja’s voice. Maybe I am insane. I hear her crying. I see her alone in the trees. I remember being alone and humiliated. I remember, too, the fat little boy hiding...

It’s a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly.

Lord, I thank you for answering my prayers at the right time.

We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can’t affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it’s the most wonderful song the...

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

We try so hard to teach our children the right things―good from bad, choices and consequences―when in reality most lessons are learned through observation and experience. Perhaps we’d be better off teaching our youth to...

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

A friendship has no guidelines.

When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside...

In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there’s criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.

It’s not about making the right choice. It’s about making a choice and making it right.

Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.

Be good.See good.Choose good.It’s a no-brainer.

Right and wrong do exist. Just because you don’t know what the right answer is — maybe there’s even no way you could know what the right answer is — doesn’t make your answer right...

You can teach a person on how to do things right but they are not obliged to your advise; After all responsibility is a personal thing.

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

In a country that doesn’t discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

If you think you’re good people, and if you are, how would you know? Is it something you always knew? Or was it something you found? Some people are naturally good at it […]. Is...

Your opponent’s wrong doesn’t automatically make you right. Most fights aren’t about who’s right; they are contention over degrees of wrongness.

Naturally, therefore, these people talk about ‘a happy time coming’; ‘the paradise of the future’; ‘mankind freed from the bondage of vice and the bondage of virtue’, and so on. And so also the men...

right” side and therefore will win. Right makes might.

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man’s mind is open on...

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Remember that the choices you make, and the reasons you make them, shape your destiny. Remember your free will…And remember, what the True One has made is supposed to bring balance and unity, not anger,...

L’Avventura,’ Dad said, ‘has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be left with, not only because they loathe anything left to the imagination-we’re talking about the...

You are wrong sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions,...

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Even when we’re right, we may be wrong. If–in the process of debate–we’ve hurt the heart of another being, it matters not whether we issued a perfectly executed unbroken chain of logic. In the end,...

The right path and easy path are usually two different things, and when it’s time to choose, always choose the right path over the easy.

The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the wrong less wrong.

…the magic was a tool, though a natural, mysterious tool. In its awareness of the magic, his human nature had desired to connect with it, to use it. The whisperings were the voice of his...

To live with integrity, it is important to know what’s right and what’s wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is not enough. Virtuous character matters more than moral knowledge. The reason is simple:...