Rightfully Quotes

66 quotes by 63 authors

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. — Michel de Montaigne
Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice. — Lysander Spooner
In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental… — Cornel West
Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced… — Paul Rudnick
There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength… — Ann Patchett
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and… — Henry David Thoreau
I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully)… — Elizabeth Gilbert
But now we've finally taken full possession of what is rightfully ours, because everyone must feel their own pain--and as awful as that is, it's… — Neal Shusterman
No fair! Those guys ripped off what we rightfully stole! — Gordon Korman
You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly. — William Goldman
Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to… — Bell Hooks
I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is… — James Branch Cabell
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day. — Charles William Eliot
Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed by it, or… — Lysander Spooner
Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud… — Aberjhani
The U.S. military is the best-trained, most effective fighting force the world has ever known. And the conduct of the vast majority of our service… — Claire McCaskill
It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor,… — Henry Cabot Lodge
Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of… — Luis Gutierrez
As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless,… — Lester Holt
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to… — John Stuart Mill

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