Mean Quote by William Safire Download Open image “The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.” — William Safire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mean
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just because you have a right to do something in America does not mean it is the right thing to do. — John Boehner Copy Share Image
“The right thing to do is doing whatever you think is the right. Because everything you do, people will not consider them right unless… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Doing the right thing is a decision, which in many cases means you stand alone. — Sebastian Kurz Copy Share Image
It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right. — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Doing something right for a wrong thing doesn't make it right. wrong is always wrong. We can't make it right. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. — William Safire Copy Share Image
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia… — William Safire Copy Share Image
This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and… — William Safire Copy Share Image
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. — William Safire Copy Share Image
A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that… — William Safire Copy Share Image
That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything. — Lou Henry Hoover Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East. — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
