#wrongly

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#been #conformity #creative #despotism #differences

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#context #fear #fine #gets #i

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#considered #inconvenience #wrongly

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#considered #inconvenience #only #rightly #wrongly

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#comes #easy #evil #how #judge

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#among #assumed #become #foot #gay

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#before #brought #campaign #carter #complicated

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. ↗

— Plato

#benefit #conferred #injure #may #often

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being. ↗

— David Packard

#assume #being #cause #company #deeper

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#example #many #only #professional #professional athletes