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Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.

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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

4.8 · 48 votes · 190 reads

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Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

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BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

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Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

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PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

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For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

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Frederick William Faber

TheologianBritish1814 · 19th century

5.0 · 64 votes

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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

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PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

5.0 · 40 votes

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I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

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ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

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If the world despises you because you do not follow its ways, pay no heed to it. But be sure your way is right.

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4.9 · 61 votes · 114 reads

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In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.

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John F. Kennedy

PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

4.7 · 50 votes · 100 reads

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It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

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AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

4.5 · 34 votes

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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov
ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century
3.3 · 26 votes · 188 reads
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One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
Simone de Beauvoir
NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century
4.9 · 37 votes · 92 reads
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Right is its own defense.
Bertolt Brecht
WriterGerman1898 · 19th century
3.2 · 48 votes · 21 reads
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William James
PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century
4.4 · 10 votes · 107 reads
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Mahatma Gandhi
LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century
4.9 · 24 votes · 166 reads
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Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract rig
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
PoetBritish1772 · 18th century
3.6 · 15 votes · 155 reads
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Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
Tony Blair
PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century
3.0 · 38 votes · 136 reads
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The Lord doesn't want any person in His kingdom who hasn't known bad and chosen good.
Anonymous
4.6 · 26 votes · 110 reads
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The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
Albert Einstein
PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century
3.2 · 33 votes · 167 reads
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The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
Peter de Vries
NovelistAmerican1910 · 20th century
4.6 · 14 votes · 53 reads
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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius
PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC
4.1 · 51 votes · 8 reads
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The Ten Commandments are not multiple choice
Anonymous
4.9 · 12 votes · 63 reads
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True happiness comes from doing what's right not just doing what makes you feel good.
Anonymous
5.0 · 52 votes · 124 reads
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What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
Robin Williams
ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century
4.8 · 49 votes · 164 reads
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When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me.
Hillary Clinton
PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century
3.0 · 6 votes · 122 reads
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When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
Samuel Beckett
WriterIrish1906 · 20th century
4.2 · 50 votes · 156 reads
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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King Jr.
LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century
4.1 · 47 votes · 83 reads
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You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
Publilius Syrus
WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC
3.9 · 43 votes · 77 reads
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