#right and wrong

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#greatest #greatest number #measure #number #people

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. ↗

— Carl Jung

#mind #nonsense #pendulum #right #right and wrong

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#conflicts #genuine #right #right and wrong #rights

I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote. ↗

— Peter Krause

#clear #country #go #i #lot

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#batman #compassion #courage #embody #family

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#any #apologize #better #family #first

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#ceased #civil #civil rights #death #enough

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment. ↗

— Debbie Harry

#being #fair #fellow #good #human

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. ↗

— James Madison

#in my opinion #interest #liable #majority #maxim

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold. ↗

— Ed Miliband

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