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f7150e2
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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wrong
truth
majority
right-and-wrong
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Leo Tolstoy |
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f8ed335
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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.
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wrong
right-and-wrong
right
morals
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Ernest Hemingway |
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706667c
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...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.
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inspirational
right-and-wrong
honor
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Wendelin Van Draanen |
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d2caa38
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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.
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greyness
learning
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
life-and-living
living
god
life-lessons
life
inspirational
childishness
living-life
black-and-white
childish
growing
grey
differences
wrong-and-right
growth
right-and-wrong
different
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C. JoyBell C. |
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f40fbae
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More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.
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righteousness
right-and-wrong
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Glen Cook |
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3c98bb6
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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.
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responsibility
right-and-wrong
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Jim Butcher |
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9ee3607
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"War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to "a war against" whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off. This is puerile, misleading, and degrading. In stories, it evades any solution but violence and offers the reader mere infantile reassurance. All too often the heroes of such fantasies behave exactly as the villains do, acting with mindless violence, but the hero is on the "right" side and therefore will win. Right makes might."
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war
morality
right-and-wrong
morals
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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7dfdf4a
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I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.
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morality
right-and-wrong
rules
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Cecelia Ahern |
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c5d94e1
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Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answer was yes, then I knew that I would always be wrong, because I could never do it. Then how could one live in a world in which one's mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? There were no answers.
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autism-spectrum
black-and-white
conformity
right-and-wrong
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Richard Wright |
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857b4c8
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He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.
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right-and-wrong
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Jess Walter |
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4aee80a
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We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.
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morality
self-awareness
tragedies
duty
right-and-wrong
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Colleen McCullough |
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066865f
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All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.
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good-and-evil
right-and-wrong
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Ellis Peters |
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ed27cbb
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If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.
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morality
i-ching
expediency
taoism
right-and-wrong
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Philip K. Dick |
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dc452a1
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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.
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man
laws
right-and-wrong
rules
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Craig Ferguson |
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91a6186
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"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."
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anarchism
moral
right-and-wrong
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G.K. Chesterton |
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22c6b30
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The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.
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good-and-evil
right-and-wrong
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Anthony Burgess |
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abdb103
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You don't seek power or popularity. You simply ask, is the thing right in itself? If it is, then I must do it, no matter the cost.
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the-crimes-of-grindelwald
the-right-thing
newt-scamander
j-k-rowling
popularity
right-and-wrong
power
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J.K. Rowling |
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4410879
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To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is not enough. Virtuous character matters more than moral knowledge. The reason is simple: like the self-confessing apostle Paul in Romans 7, most of those who do wrong know what's right but find themselves irresistibly attracted to its opposite. Faith idles when character shrivels
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virtue
integrity
morality
faith
faith-without-works-is-dead
moral-knowledge
works
st-paul
romans
right-and-wrong
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Miroslav Volf |
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4c26b29
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"It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong."
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war
mortality
right-and-wrong
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Jim Butcher |
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becc919
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I'm right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, a hero and a villain, and I've been just as capable of truth as I have been lies.
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lies
good
wrong
truth
hero-and-villain
moral-and-immoral
chasing-impossible
katie-mcgarry
pushing-the-limits
immoral
good-and-bad
truth-and-lies
villain
bad
moral
hero
right-and-wrong
right
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Katie McGarry |
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8418b3e
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"Naturally, therefore, these people talk about 'a happy time coming'; 'the paradise of the future'; 'mankind freed from the bondage of vice and the bondage of virtue', and so on. And so also the men of the inner circle speak -- the sacred priesthood. They also speak to applauding crowds of the happiness of the future, and of mankind freed at last. But in their mouths" -- and the policeman lowered his voice -- "in their mouths these happy phrases have a horrible meaning. They are under no illusions; they are too intellectual to think that man upon this earth can ever be quite free of original sin and the struggle. And they mean death. When they say that mankind shall be free at last, they mean that mankind shall commit suicide. When they talk of a paradise without right or wrong, they mean the grave. They have but two objects, to destroy first humanity and then themselves. That is why they throw bombs instead of firing pistols. The innocent rank and file are disappointed because the bomb has not killed the king; but the high-priesthood are happy because it has killed somebody."
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terrorism
right-and-wrong
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G.K. Chesterton |
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102b765
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" ,' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be left with, not only because they loathe anything left to the imagination-we're talking about the country that invented spandex-but also because they are a confident, self-assured nation. They Family. They Right from Wrong. They know God-many of them attest to daily chats with the man. And the idea that none of us can truly know anything at all-not the lives of our friends or family, not even ourselves-is a thought they'd rather be shot in the arm with their own semi-automatic rifle than face head-on. Personally, I think there's something terrific about not knowing, relinquishing man's feeble attempt to control. When you throw up your hands, say, "Who knows?" you can get on with the sheer gift of being alive." --
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america
family
god
ambiguous-ending
foreign-film
ambiguity
endings
control
americans
right-and-wrong
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Marisha Pessl |
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7d60330
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The real point of the matter is that what we call a 'wrong datum' is one which is inconsistent with all other known data. It is our only criterion for right and wrong.
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right-and-wrong
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Isaac Asimov |
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b12481c
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...There's no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?
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ursula-k-le-guin
what-to-do
right-and-wrong
question
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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8442d77
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All men are sinners.
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morality
sinner
right-and-wrong
sin
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George R.R. Martin |
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76db216
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We've reached a poor state when people are afraid that doing the decent and right thing is going to help the communist conspiracy.
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justice
right-and-wrong
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John Howard Griffin |
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d7cea25
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He took the woman from her bed, pretending not to notice the question posed in his mind: Why do you always experiment on women? He didn't care to admit that the inference had any validity. She just happened to be the first one he's come across, that was all. What about the man in the living room, though? For God's sake! he flared back. I'm not going to rape the woman! Crossing your fingers, Neville? Knocking on wood? He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might have termed it conscience. Now it was only an annoyance. Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic. Makes a good excuse, doesn't it, Neville? Oh, shut up.
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rape
morality
sexual-desire
harassment
ethic
society
instinct
right-and-wrong
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Richard Matheson |
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3f82c21
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"All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect Regularity in the bodily figure, caused perhaps (if not congenital) by some collision in a crowd; by neglect to take exercise, or by taking too much of it; or even by a sudden change of temperature, resulting in a shrinkage or expansion in some too susceptible part of the frame. Therefore, concluded that illustrious Philosopher, neither good conduct nor bad conduct is a fit subject, in any sober estimation, for either praise or blame. For why should you praise, for example, the integrity of a Square who faithfully defends the interests of his client, when you ought in reality rather to admire the exact precision of his right angles? Or again, why blame a lying, thievish Isosceles when you ought rather to deplore the incurable inequality of his sides? Theoretically, this doctrine is unquestionable; but it has practical drawbacks. In dealing with an Isosceles, if a rascal pleads that he cannot help stealing because of his unevenness, you reply that for that very reason, because he cannot help being a nuisance to his neighbours, you, the Magistrate, cannot help sentencing him to be consumed - and there's an end of the matter. But in little domestic difficulties, where the penalty of consumption, or death, is out of the question, this theory of Configuration sometimes comes in awkwardly; and I must confess that occasionally when one of my own Hexagonal Grandsons pleads as an excuse for his disobedience that a sudden change of the temperature has been too much for his perimeter, and that I ought to lay the blame not on him but on his Configuration, which can only be strengthened by abundance of the choicest sweetmeats, I neither see my way logically to reject, nor practically to accept, his conclusions. For my own part, I find it best to assume that a good sound scolding or castigation has some latent and strengthening influence on my Grandson's Configuration; though I own that I have no grounds for thinking so. At all events I am not alone in my way of extricating myself from this dilemma; for I find that many of the highest Circles, sitting as Judges in law courts, use praise and blame towards Regular and Irregular Figures; and in their homes I know by experience that, when scolding their children, they speak about "right" or "wrong" as vehemently and passionately as if they believed that these names represented real existences, and that a human Figure is really capable of choosing between them."
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morality
humor
punishment
right-and-wrong
logic
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Edwin A. Abbott |
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175aac2
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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.
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philosophical
right-and-wrong
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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93c66f2
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"That story I told you as we arrived? About the man who killed the former master of this castle and raped his wife? Did you think it a fairy tale? No, his blood runs in my veins. I was bred to do what I am doing now. Don't fault the viper for striking. It's what snakes do." Her lips trembled, but her eyes were dry, as if she'd already given up hope of persuading him and he did not mourn at all. . "The blood of that woman who was raped is in your veins, too, isn't it?" Oh, she knew where to hit. "Naturally. But I think it's less apparent, don't you? The story says she was dark and small." She shook her head. "So all that talk of right and wrong- that doesn't matter in the end to you at all?" He hesitated- just for the smallest fraction of a second- because he had always found the question of right and wrong rather fascinating. But then he smiled at her. "Only in the abstract."
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bridget-crumb
right-and-wrong
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Elizabeth Hoyt |