38 Right And Wrong Quotes

In a world filled with complex decisions and moral dilemmas, understanding the nuances of right and wrong can be challenging. Whether you're seeking inspiration, guidance, or simply some food for thought, quotes often provide a powerful lens through which we can explore these timeless concepts. We've curated a collection of the top 38 right and wrong quotes to help illuminate the principles and wisdom that have shaped our understanding of morality throughout history. Dive in and let these words resonate with your journey toward greater clarity and ethical insight.

1. “So far, 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

2. “If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.” - Jules Renard

3. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” - Theodore Roosevelt

4. “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” - Leo Tolstoy

5. “Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.” - Winston S. Churchill

6. “The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.” - Patrick Henry

7. “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.” - Saint Augustine

8. “...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.” - Wendelin Van Draanen

9. “If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.” - Rebecca Manley Pippert

10. “In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.” - Josh Rushing

11. “The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.” - Abraham Lincoln

12. “What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?” - Mark Twain

13. “What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.” - Jeanne DuPrau

14. “In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.” - Lionel Shriver

15. “Well, you have said that you were quite certain I was not a serious anarchist. Does this place strike you as being serious?""It does seem to have a moral under all its gaiety," assented Syme; "but may I ask you two questions? You need not fear to give me information, because, as you remember, you very wisely extorted from me a promise not to tell the police, a promise I shall certainly keep. So it is in mere curiosity that I make my queries. First of all, what is it really all about? What is it you object to? you want to abolish Government?""To abolish God!" said Gregory, opening the eyes of a fanatic. "We do not only want to upset a few despotisms and police regulations; that sort of anarchism does exist, but it is a mere branch of the Nonconformists. We dig deeper and we blow you higher. We wish to deny all those arbitrary distinctions of vice and virtue, honour and treachery, upon which mere rebels base themselves. The silly sentimentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man! We hate Rights and we hate Wrongs. We have abolished Right and Wrong.""And Right and Left," said Syme with a simple eagerness. "I hope you will abolish them too. They are much more troublesome to me.” - G.K. Chesterton

16. “Imagine you come upon a house painted brown. What color would you say the house was?""Why brown, of course.""But what if I came upon it from the other side, and found it to be white?""That would be absurd. Who would paint a house two colors?"He ignored my question. "You say it's brown, and I say it's white. Who's right?""We're both right.""Non," he said. "We're both wrong. The house isn't brown or white. It's both. You and I only see one side. But that doesn't mean the other side doesn't exist. To not see the whole is to not see the truth.” - Megan Chance

17. “More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.” - Glen Cook

18. “When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right. Some things are categorized as black and some things are categorized as white. But most things in the world aren't either! Most things in the world aren't black, aren't white, aren't wrong, aren't right, but most of everything is just different. And now I know that there's nothing wrong with different, and that we can let things be different, we don't have to try and make them black or white, we can just let them be grey. And when I was a child, I thought that God was the God who only saw black and white. Now that I am no longer a child, I can see, that God is the God who can see the black and the white and the grey, too, and He dances on the grey! Grey is okay.” - C. JoyBell C.

19. “All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.” - Ellis Peters

20. “It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly.” - Brittney Ryan

21. “What you must remember is that the magic itself is neither good nor bad, no more so than this ship might be used for right or wrong. It might be used by a fisherman to feed a village, for example. Or, the same vessel might be sailed by pirates to murder and pillage...the lumber, rope, nails, cotton, and everything that goes into it-is created by the True One. Humans decide how it is to be put together and how it is used.” - Derek Donais

22. “...the magic was a tool, though a natural, mysterious tool. In its awareness of the magic, his human nature had desired to connect with it, to use it. The whisperings were the voice of his own awakening, not the seductive call of a dark power. Using it was not corruption, but a natural extension of his being. And he could control the manner in which he used it. He would.” - Derek Donais

23. “If you think you’re good people, and if you are, how would you know? Is it something you always knew? Or was it something you found? Some people are naturally good at it […]. Is it worth trying to be something you’re not? Just because it’s right?” - Jen Wang

24. “True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?” - Walter Van Tilburg Clark

25. “I suppose there's no good answer to that, Danny. I wish there was. But if you take the wrong, path, something deep inside you will feel twisted. There are times when that will be the only way to know the right from the wrong.” - Inara Scott

26. “I'm too old to figure out the rights and wrongs of everything.” - Barbara Else

27. “Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, but men are measured by their right.” - Ali Bin Abi Thalib

28. “... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

29. “Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken.Infallibility is a sin in any man.All laws can be broken and are.Often.” - Craig Ferguson

30. “It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.” - Lemony Snicket

31. “The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong.” - Jonah Lehrer

32. “When you have the right, doesn't mean that you are right.” - farah ezzatie

33. “Before I knowed it, I was saying out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.” - John Steinbeck

34. “Brittney, it was wrong to murder even before Moses brought down the commandments. Right and wrong doesn't come from God. It's inside us. And we know it. And even if God appears right in front of us, and tells us to our faces to murder, it's still wrong.” - Michael Grant Plague

35. “While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.” - Andy Andrews

36. “But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?” - Anthony Burgess

37. “Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.” - Jim Butcher

38. “I did the wrong thing, and I lost him for real.But did you do the wrong thing? Jamie thinks it was the wrong thing. But do you?No. I don't.I didn't do what Jamie would have wanted me to do, but that doesn't mean it was wrong.” - Louise Rozett