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Fiat justitia, pereat coelum. My toast would be, may our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. See Decatur 258:8, Ferdinand I 320:1.
I know one thing we did right Was the day we started to fight, Keep your eye on the prize, Hold on, hold on!
Harold Macmillan held his party together by not allowing his left wing to see what his right wing was doing.
I said to Heart,'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!' But it lied.
An editor must always be with the peoplethink with themfeel with themand he need fear nothing, he will always be rightalways be strongalways free.
An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right over thestick Iamaboutto cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.
Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right.
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
The L said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lpondereth the hearts.
And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
It is meet and right so to do.
No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
The year's at the spring, And days at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven All's right with the world.
In the great right of an excessive wrong.
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.
Whatevereachmancanseparatelydo, withouttrespassing upon others, he has a right to dofor himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all whichsociety, with all its combination of skill and force, can do in his favour.
He turn'd him right and round about, Upon the Irish shore, And gae his bridle reins a shake, With, Adieu for evermore, my dear, And Adieu for evermore!
Lo sguardo dei cani che non capiscono e non sanno che possono aver ragione a non capire. The gaze of dogs who don't understand and who don't know that they may be right not to understand. 185
Books are written by martyr-men, not for rich men alone but for all men. If we consider it, every human being has, by the nature of the case, a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
'Just about as much right,'said the Duchess,'as pigs have to fly.'
'My country right or wrong', is a thing that no patriot would thinkof saying except in a desperate case.It is like saying,'My mother, drunkor sober'. See Decatur 258:8.
Ulster will not be a consenting party.Ulster, attheproper time, will resort to the supreme arbitrament of force; Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right.
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, at any time.
President Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
The dominion of the sea, as it is an ancient and undoubted right of the crown of England, so it isthe best security of the land The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom.
That all was wrong because not all was right.
To fight for the right, to abhor the imperfect, the unjust, or the mean, to swerve neither to the right hand nor the left, to care nothing for flattery or applause or odium or abuseit is so easy to have any of them in Indianever to let your enthusiasm be soured or your courage grow dim but to remember that the Almighty has placed your hand on the greatest of his ploughs, in whose furrow the nations of the future are germinating and taking shape, to drive the blade a little forward in your time and to feel that somewhere among those millions you have left, a little justice, or happiness or prosperity, a sense of manliness or moral dignity, a springof patriotism, a dawn of intellectual enlightenmentora stirringofduty whereit did not exist beforethat is enough, that is the Englishman's justification in India.
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. SeeAdams 5:92, Chesterton 211:46.
These two ignorant and unpolished people had guided themselves so faron in their journey of life, bya religious sense of duty and desire to do right.
All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law becausetheyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.
Sincerity is all that counts is a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere.Lunaticsaresincere.Peoplewho believethatthe earth is flat are sincere. They can't all be right. Better Sir Martin Mar-All make certain first that you have something to be sincere about, and with.
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi,'tisno matter whatthey think; theyare sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong: their judgement is a mere lottery.
For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might? Nor is the people's judgement always true: The most may err as grossly as the few. 290
Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
And right action is freedom From past and future also.
'O! help me heaven,'she prayed,'to be decorative and to do right!'
Un romancier, selon moi, n'a pas le droit de dire son avis sur les choses de ce monde. Il doit, dans sa vocation, imiter Dieu dans la sienne, c'est-a' -dire faire et se taire. A novelist, in my opinion, does not have the right to give advice on the affairs of the world. He must, in his occupation, imitate God in His; that is to say, create and keep quiet.
Mon centre ce' de, ma droite recule, situation excellente, j'attaque. My centre isgiving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.
He believed in sudden conversion, a belief which may be right, but which is peculiarlyattractive to the half- baked mind.
There are times in politics whenyou must be on theright side and lose.
On the Beach is a storyabout the end of the world, and Melbourne sure is the right place to film it.
He said that, by god,D. H. Lawrence was right when he had said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly- tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?
In your heart, you know I'm right.
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted, he must also be right.
If there is war, there will be Labourgovernments in every countryand quite right too.
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is onlya motor hand.
He never wants anything but what's right and fair, only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that hewantsandnothing that youwant. And that's his idea of a compromise.Give me the Brown compromise when I'm on his side.
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
Next tobeing right inthis world, thebest of all things isto be clearly and definitely wrong. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutelyand thoroughlyand persistently wrong you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking yourheadagainstafact, andthat setsyouallstraightagain.
Flertallet har aldrig retten pafi sin side. Aldrig, siger jeg! Det er en af disse samfundslÖgnere, som en fri, t½nkende mand mafi gÖre oprÖr imod. Hvem er det, som udgÖr flertallet af beboerne i et land? Er det de kloge folk, eller er det de' dumme? Jeg t½nker, vi fafi r vaere enige om, at dumme mennesker er tilstede i en ganske forskr½kkelig overv½ldende majoritet rundt omkring pafi den hele vide jord. The majority never has right on its side.Never,I say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking man is bound to rebel against.Who makes up the majority in any given country? Is it the wise men or the fools? I think we must agree that the fools are in a terrible overwhelming majority, all the wide world over.
Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right I want it that way.
'The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
There is a doing of right out of wrong, if the ways be found.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.
Lenin was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning theexisting basisofsociety thanto debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces ofeconomic lawontheside ofdestruction, and doesit in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
Supposing the Press in order, the people in their right wits, and news or no news to be the question, a Public Mercury should not have my Vote, because I think it makes the Multitude too familiar with the actions and counsels of their superiors, too pragmatical and censorious, and gives them not onlyan itch but a kind of colourable right to be meddling with the government.
Give it because it isright.Give it because it is just.Give it because it isgood for Ireland and good for the United Kingdom.Give it because it brings peace and good will, but do not give it because you are bullied byassassins.
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.
No government isgoing to take from me my right to speak, my right to protest against wrong, my right to do everything that is for the benefit of mankind.I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot.
He is young and perhaps he is right. Maybe my ear is not sensitive enough.
Architecture is an art which is basically geometrical. The cube is the basis of architecture because the right angle is necessarythe steps of a staircase consist of vertical and horizontal planes and the corners of rooms are nearly always right angles.We need right angles. 542
A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents onwhom hehas a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is.
When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night
And Corky'd protested,You mean it isn't enough to be right?they have to like me, too?
Inever try tomakea right decision.Imakea decisionand then try to make it right.
The era of free speech is closing down. The freedom of the press in Britain was always something of a fake, because in the last resort, money controls opinion; still, so long asthe legal right tosay what you like exists, there are always loopholes for an unorthodox writer.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at the bottom a controversy over the desirability, or otherwise, of telling lies.What is really at issue is the right to report events truthfully, or as truthfully as is consistent with the ignorance, bias and self-deception from which every observer necessarily suffers.
I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!
England is one of the greatest powers of the world. No event or series of events bearing on the balance of power, or on probabilities of peace or war, can be matters of indifferencetoher, and herrighttohaveand to express opinions onmattersthusbearingonher interests is unquestionable.
Let's do it right. This is for the ages.
The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
If the young fellow is right, I and the rest of the players have been all wrong.
To sit back hoping that some day, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping that he will eat you lastbut eat you he will.
Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that therichhaveno right to the property of the poor.
As every teacher, like every drill-sergeant or animal trainer, knows in his practice, teaching and training have virtually not yet begun, so long as the pupil istoo young, too stupid, too scared or too sulky to respondand to respond is not just to yield.Where there is a modicum of alacrity, interest or anyhow docility in the pupil, where he tries, however faintheartedly, to get things right rather than awkward, where, even, he registers even a slight contempt for the poor performances of others, of chagrin at his own, pleasure at his own successes and envy of those of others, then he is, in however slight a degree, co-operating and so self-moving.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the righttoa child with the obligationto becometheservant of a man. 780
Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.
The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart's blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man.
For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right,
Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
This is no case of petty right or wrong That politicians or philosophers Can judge. I hate not Germans, nor grow hot With love of Englishmen, to please newspapers.
It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.If I had a yaller dog that didn't know nomorethana person's conscience does Iwould poison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow. Tom Sawyer he says the same.
But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
Human beings are perhaps never more frightened than when theyare convinced beyond doubt that theyare right.
Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong.
The feelings withwhichwe facethisnewage of right and opportunity sweep across our heartstrings like some air out of God's own presence, where justice and mercyare reconciled, and the judge and the brother are one.
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there issuch a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
The idea was to prove at every foot of the way upthat you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and could move higher and higher and evenultimately,God willing, one daythat you might be able to join that special fewat the very top, that elite who had the capacity to bring tears to men's eyes, the very Brotherhood of the Right Stuff itself.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may it is to be hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
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