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Voltaire Quote: 'It is dangerous to be right ...'

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It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.


Jeremy Bentham
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Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being 'established' in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed into the soul space of others.
Richard Foster
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Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.
Patricia Richardson
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Right is right and wrong is wrong.


Terrell Owens
Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
Lajos Kossuth
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It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.
Tim Robbins
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The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.


Antiphanes
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It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.
Charles R. Swindoll
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Tukey
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It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.
Laurence Housman
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.


William Penn
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.
Chuck D
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I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.


Charlie Chaplin
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.


R. Buckminster Fuller
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.


Robert Mankoff
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If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong.
Henry Cabot Lodge
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
Naguib Mahfouz
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As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and right now the most dangerous thing to us are the differences between us.
Richard Dooling
I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.
Mike Singletary
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