239 Quotes About Right-and-wrong

It wasn't uncommon to hear rationalizations of this sort--the longing to transform bad deeds into good ones. No one ever wanted to hear that God didn't work that way; the Lord would never want a young woman to trade her body to follow a commandment. Sins couldn't be laundered by good results.

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

If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn’t need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people’s approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery.

We live in an upside-down world. People hate when they should love, quarrel when they should be friendly, fight when they should be peaceful, wound when they should heal, steal when they should share,do wrong when they should do right.

Since human knowledge is not perfect, a more knowledgeable person is not always right.

What is right is a lot more important than who is right.

It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined.

Be good.See good.Choose good.It's a no-brainer.

The common-place critic . . . believes that truth lies in the middle, between the extremes of right and wrong.