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Right Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human…
- Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement…
- If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an…
- The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about…
- In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.
- Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing…
- Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.
- Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.
- There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the…
- Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are…
- Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all…
- No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy…
- Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
- There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty,…
More Right Quotes
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I… — J. J. Abrams
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour