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We don't have the moral right to be nobody — Sunday Adelaja

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right. — John Cusack

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. — Samuel Johnson

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong. — Theodore Roosevelt

The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint. — Henry Kissinger

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing. — Martin Luther King Jr.

This feels like a critical fork in my road-success lies to the left, moral integrity to the right; are they ever on the same road? — Elisabeth Robinson

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right. — Theodore Roosevelt

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government — J. P. Morgan

Moral of the story: try to get things right, figure out what's going wrong with the scenario, and don't give up. — Cody Lundin

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process. — Hillary Clinton

It's the love of right lures men to wrong. — Kim Stanley Robinson

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions. — Lucy Stone

Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. — D. Todd Christofferson

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody. — Justin Cronin

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing. — Charles Dudley Warner

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. — Penn Jillette

That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action. — Pope Pius XII

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too. — David Cameron

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching. — Warren E. Burger

In a city where men are killing each other like animals just to make it a happier place, who has the right to stop me from killing myself? — Orhan Pamuk

When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence. — Ravi Zacharias

There's right and there's wrong. Y'gotta do one or the other. Do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat. — John Wayne

It doesn't seem right? Another part of him wondered, Since when do I worry about what's right? — Rick Riordan

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. — Norman Borlaug

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable. — Leigh Hunt

It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill! — Mother Teresa

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel. — Benjamin Netanyahu

People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right. — Tom Brokaw

Christians don't have the moral right to be indifferent — Sunday Adelaja

When you decide something's right, there's nothing that can stop you from doing it. — Caragh M. O'Brien

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times. — Koichiro Matsuura

You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion. — Kane

I've tried to live my life right, just like a story. — Angela Sidney

Eliot always said, "I'm sorry. I had to do that." If you are all right really, really all right, you don't do things that are sorry. — Rumer Godden

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it. — David Lee Roth

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training. — Herbert Hoover

Do not perform an action for the reward it may bring. Perform it because it is right; it is dharma. — Shelley Schanfield

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass. — Billy Corgan

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals. — Henry Ford

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock. — David Bergen

The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right. — Theodore Dalrymple

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular. — Mark Twain

Natural isn't the same as right. Normal isn't the same as moral. Everyone deserves a say in what happens to the world. — Audrey Greathouse

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong. — F. Sionil Jose

The right moral compass is trying hard to think about what customers want. — Sundar Pichai

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right. — Harrison Ford

Abortion is a moral right - which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved. — Ayn Rand

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. — Basil Hume

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong. — Abraham Lincoln

All sentient beings should have at least one right - the right not to be treated as property — Gary L. Francione

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it. — John Lewis

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Christians don't the moral right to be indifferent — Sunday Adelaja

There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing. — Aleister Crowley

As a life long vegetarian I believe that since man cannot give life he has no moral right to take it away. — Ketevan Gogelia

Stand for right, even if you stand alone. — Thomas S. Monson

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better. — Stephanie S. Tolan

Moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong! — Abraham Lincoln

We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong. — Sharon Gannon

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing? — Mira Grant

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right. — Thomas Jefferson

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right. — Fulton J. Sheen

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral. — Jean-Paul Sartre

There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished. — Sandra Bernhard

It is foolish to let down our defenses against an attack simply because we will be in the moral right should that attack come. — Garry Kasparov

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. — Thomas Jefferson

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right. — Carl Hiaasen

The Christian is to take his place in society with moral courage to stand up for that which is right, just, and honorable. — Billy Graham

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless. — Chester Nimitz

Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious. — Colin Tudge

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality. — Albert Einstein

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. — Abraham Lincoln