
“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.”
March 11, 1958.
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.”
March 11, 1958.
“Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.”
Program 19
Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)
“Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.'
'You think so?”
'I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then.'
Colonel John Boyle and David in Ch. 7
The Garden of Eden (1986)
about 1900, page 429
John of the Mountains, 1938
"Shoaku makusa : Not Doing Wrong Action" as translated by Anzan Hoshin roshi and Yasuda Joshu Dainen roshi (2007)
“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.”
Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo051109/debtext/51109-03.htm#51109-03_spmin10, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 439, col. 302.
9 November 2005, responding to Charles Kennedy in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions. Blair was referring to the likely defeat in Parliament of additional powers to detain terror suspects without charge, which happened later that day.
2000s
“It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.”
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
Not attributed to Keynes until after his death. The original quote comes from Carveth Read and is:
It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.
Logic, deductive and inductive (1898), p. 351 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18440/18440-h/18440-h.htm#Page_351
Misattributed