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“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.” Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.” Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
“it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.” Voltaire, Candide
“What is wrong is that we do not ask what is right.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“If you’re for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.” Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Within the extent of your knowledge, . . . you are right.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.” Confucius, Analects
“right is more precious than peace” Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy
“For a right is nothing more than the other aspect of duty.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.” Theodore Roosevelt, State of the Union Address
“For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts” Woodrow Wilson, We Must Accept War
“It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.” Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.” Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Power of the body decides everything in the end, and only Might is Right.” T. H. White, The Once and Future King
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.” Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
“I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“If I didn't care about doing right, and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“What is morality? . . . Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense
“Very nice, but you know the old saying—even a stopped clock gets it right twice a day.” Stephen King, 11/22/63
“You loved me—then what right had you to leave me?” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Sir . . . with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“We see the crude and corrupt beginnings of a higher civilisation blotted out by the ferocious uprising of the native tribes. Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity...” Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
“people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“And so, my fellow Americans... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!” Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“By-and-by we shall take turns, for marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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