#right and wrong

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. ↗

— James Madison

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I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. ↗

— Kelly Miller

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Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#american #art #chief #city #nearly

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all. ↗

— Joy Page

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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept. ↗

— Randall Terry

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Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall. ↗

— Randall Terry

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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

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My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that. ↗

— Shaun Cassidy

#bad #good #good and bad #i #idea

Right is right and wrong is wrong. ↗

— Terrell Owens

#right and wrong #wrong

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations? ↗

— Tony Campolo

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