“You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!”
“Only a woman can make you feel wrong for doing something right.”
“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”
Source: Handle with Care
Source: Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, 1926, p. 144
“When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.”
1960s, Why We Can't Wait (1964)
Context: Someone once wrote: "When you are right, you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative." The Negro knows he is right.
“Managers cannot learn from doing things right, only from doing them wrong”
Source: 2000s, A little book of f-laws: 13 common sins of management, 2006, p. 37 cited in: Andrew Carey (2008) Inside Project Red Stripe: Incubating Innovation and Teamwork at the Economist. p. 49.
Source: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 14, Thinking: The Way to Conscious Immortality, p. 943
“It is impossible to recognize a wrong way without knowing the right way.”
In Search of the Miraculous (1949), Ch. 10. p. 203
Context: It is impossible to recognize a wrong way without knowing the right way. This means that it is no use troubling oneself how to recognize a wrong way. One must think of how to find the right way.
