#right

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#moral-courage #right #right-and-wrong #courage

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great? ↗

— Sam Ervin

#american #american revolution #belong #divine #eat

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#also #because #considering #five #individual

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric. ↗

— Ben Folds

#figure #job #lyric #music #out

On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places. ↗

— Mark Foley

#constitutional #constitutional right #day #exercised #february

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong. ↗

— Michael Frayn

#being #catastrophically #create #creating #good

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is. ↗

— Rose Wilder Lane

#ethics #freedom #individual-rights #ownership #philosophy

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#anyone #conceals #continuous #face #frightening

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#any #balls #character #effort #had

Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#always #been #doing #doing the right thing #fellow