Right Quotes
29161 Right quotes by 11714 unique authors
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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events…
— William J. Clinton
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When the time is right, you just got to do it.
— J. R. Simplot
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I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It is never easy to define what is moral, particularly in foreign policy. But at the risk of being simplistic, it appears to me that…
— Arthur Goldberg
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And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a…
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand…
— Samuel Ruiz
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Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does…
— Mother Teresa
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It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be…
— Kofi Annan
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It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits of their arguments.…
— Mike Thompson
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I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal
— Andrew Wiles
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No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to…
— Dalai Lama
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Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
— Michael Porter
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Focus first on where you want to be, and why, and then on the right path to get there.
— Mark Halperin
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I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am…
— Jeremy Paxman
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When the United States stands up for human rights, by example at home and by effort abroad, we align ourselves with men and women around…
— Barack Obama
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I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming. I think they…
— Jimmy Carter
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In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out…
— Freeman Dyson
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To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.
— Harrison Ford
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Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable,…
— Gregg Easterbrook
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The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's right to vote,…
— Kumi Naidoo
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I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits,…
— Gary Becker
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