#right

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#greatest #last #reason #right #temptation

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth. ↗

— Black Elk

#center #earth #hoop #i #nation

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time. ↗

— Linda Ellerbee

#dead #fight #fish #heart #might

If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#cast #correctly #leeway #lot #make

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#commercial #depress #equal #equal rights #every

Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it. ↗

— Al Stewart

#boxing #fellows #fight #fighters #floyd

The only true forms of equality are equality at the Last Judgment and equality before a just court of law; all other attempts at levelling must lead, at best, to social stagnation. ↗

— Russel Kirk

#human-rights #judgement-day #law #equality

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place. ↗

— Christopher Gist

#among #away #came #family #five

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future. ↗

— Guy Finley

#best #bright #bright future #fully #future

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#anybody #between #contemplate #could #difference