Can You Even Tell Right from Wrong These Days?

If you can't; you're in trouble

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

― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

 

“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, Death in the Afternoon

 

“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.” 

― Augustine of Hippo

 

“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

 

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

― Patrick Henry

 

“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.” 

― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

 

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.” 

― Confucius

 

“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, The City of Ember

 

“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

 

“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, Mission Al-Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World

 

“When you have the right, doesn't mean that you are right.” 

― farah ezzatie

 

“... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.” 

― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

 

“If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.” 

― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

 

“Stand up for what is right against the wrong.” 

― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

 

“To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.” 

― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

 

“If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.

It is in the close similarity between good and evil, right and wrong, that the danger lies.” 

-- Unknown

 

“Before one can know what is right and wrong,

he must first align himself with God. Only then is one in a position to do right.” 

--Unknown

 

“The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing.” 

― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

 

“Truly, the world is in need of moral leadership . . .that teaches the difference between right and wrong and teaches us to forgive one another even as we are forgiven by our Father in heaven.”  --- Unknown

 

“An evil individual does not feel ever offended by the bad words of the wrong people ,but often by a right word of a good person.” 

― Anuj Somany