Right And Wrong Quotes

Since the dawn of human consciousness. The question has echoed. What is right. And what is wrong. This question is not merely a philosophical dilemma. But it is the backbone of ethics. Of societies. And even of individual survival. Philosophers. Religious leaders. And even children. Struggle with this contradictory duality. Its definition is not fixed. It changes with cultures. Across ages. And even within each human soul. Creating a vast gray area of doubt and perplexity.

Here you will find sayings that attempt to unravel the mysteries of this pivotal concept.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau: All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a play...
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
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— Henry David Thoreau
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Quote by Theodore Roosevelt: Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholdi...
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
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— Theodore Roosevelt
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Quote by Theodore Roosevelt: It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong....
It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.
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— Theodore Roosevelt
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Quote by C.S. Lewis: Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in tryi...
Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.
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— C.S. Lewis
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Quote by Thomas Sowell: The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whethe...
The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whether or not they succeed - and those for whom the only question is how much they can get away with.
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— Thomas Sowell
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Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every...
There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.
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— Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote by Charles Dickens: The aphorism
The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.
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— Charles Dickens
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Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capac...
The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.
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— Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote by Richard Wagner: Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of....
Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.
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— Richard Wagner
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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it....
The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
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— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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