#wrong

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ↗

— Richard Armour

#been #concerned #instead #left #long

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#am #answers #apprehend #asked #been

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#authority #been #best #given #help

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#greatest happiness #greatest number #happiness #measure #number

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#beacon #claim #direct #explicit #guide

Sending our youth to war is wrong. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#sending #war #wrong #youth

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial. ↗

— Luc Besson

#because #commercial #film #films #i

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation. ↗

— John Spratt

#big #equipment #iraqi #iraqi people #liberators

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. ↗

— Bono

#heroes #made #mistakes #ones #recovered

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong. ↗

— Bono

#had #questions #thought #wrong