right and wrong quotes

8 quotes

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

H. L. Mencken

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

Isaac Asimov

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

Bob Marley

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

Russell M. Nelson

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Abraham Lincoln