“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.”

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The Second Sin (1973)

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Hungarian psychiatrist 1920–2012

Alden Nowlan (1933–1983) Canadian writer

“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Source: A Woman of No Importance

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”

Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist

1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.”

Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Blair likes to say that his party is best when it is bold. So is he--and when he has an unconflicted view of the right and wrong of an issue.”

Irwin Stelzer (1932) American economist and columnist

Letter from Londonistan (2005)

“Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

1850s, Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)

“You are a man now, and to be un hombre, a man must not only know right from wrong, he must also know who he is and who he isn’t. Because if a man doesn’t know who he is and who he isn’t, then no matter how much he knows about right and wrong, he will always be like a fish out of water.”

Victor Villaseñor (1940) American writer

Crazy Loco Love: A Memoir (2008)

“The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace'… A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.”

Ehud Barak (1942) Israeli politician and prime minister

Barak Fights Labor MKs over Goldstone http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134060 Israel National News, October 26, 2009.

“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

On Ezra Pound, as quoted in The New Republic (11 November 1936)

“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.”

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