Quotes about right

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Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Source: The Storyteller

Source: Bet Me

Source: Extras

Source: The Mark of Athena

Autobiographical Notes (1952)
Context: I don't like people who like me because I'm a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt. I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright. I consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done.
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Source: Forrest Gump

Source: Naruto, Vol. 02: The Worst Client

Source: The Red Pyramid

Source: The Last Song

Source: Sam's Letters to Jennifer

Source: Behemoth

As translated by William Scott Wilson. This first sentence of this passage was used as a military slogan during the early 20th century to encourage soldiers to throw themselves into battle. Variant translations:
Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning. Move on with determination. To say dying without attaining ones aim is a foolish sacrifice of life is the flippant attitude of the sophisticates in the Kamigata area. In such a case it is difficult to make the right judgement. No one longs for death. We can speculate on whatever we like. But if we live without having attaining that aim, we are cowards. This is an important point and the correct path of the Samurai. When we calmly think of death morning and evening and are in despair, We are able to gain freedom in the way of the Samurai. Only then can we fulfil our duty without making mistakes in life.
By the Way of the warrior is meant death. The Way of the warrior is death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. It means nothing more than this. It means to see things through, being resolved.
I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
The way of the Samurai is in death.
I have found the essence of Bushido: to die!
Hagakure (c. 1716)
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Context: The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance. To say that dying without reaching one's aim is to die a dog's death is the frivolous way of sophisticates. When pressed with the choice of life or death, it is not necessary to gain one's aim.
We all want to live. And in large part we make our logic according to what we like. But not having attained our aim and continuing to live is cowardice. This is a thin dangerous line. To die without gaining one's aim is a dog's death and fanaticism. But there is no shame in this. This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai. If by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.

Source: Going Bovine

Source: Tender Is the Night

Variant: If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can not, you are right.

Name of an article http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/gibson_wasteoftime.shtml he wrote for New York Times Magazine (14 July 1996)

Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

Source: Max

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Variant: You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter.
Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Source: Bad Moon Rising

Source: The Notebook

Source: The Woman Destroyed

Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (2008)
Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Source: I Am the Messenger

Introduction, Collected Works of Ken Wilber, vol. VIII (2000) http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/books/cowokev8_intro.cfm/ <br class="br">Context: The real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is: here are some of the many important facets of this extraordinary Kosmos; have you thought about including them in your own worldview? My work is an attempt to make room in the Kosmos for all of the dimensions, levels, domains, waves, memes, modes, individuals, cultures, and so on ad infinitum. I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace. To Freudians I say, Have you looked at Buddhism? To Buddhists I say, Have you studied Freud? To liberals I say, Have you thought about how important some conservative ideas are? To conservatives I say, Can you perhaps include a more liberal perspective? And so on, and so on, and so on... At no point I have ever said: Freud is wrong, Buddha is wrong, liberals are wrong, conservatives are wrong. I have only suggested that they are true but partial. My critical writings have never attacked the central beliefs of any discipline, only the claims that the particular discipline has the only truth — and on those grounds I have often been harsh. But every approach, I honestly believe, is essentially true but partial, true but partial, true but partial.<br>And on my own tombstone, I dearly hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial...

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Variant: The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Source: Murder in the Cathedral

Source: The Red Pyramid

Source: Breathless

Source: One for the Money

Source: A Simple Plan

Source: Abandon

Variant: When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.
Source: Something Borrowed

Source: I Am the Messenger

Source: Austenland

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Source: Leaves of Grass

Source: Lover Awakened

Part 2, Apert
Source: Anathem (2008)

Source: Lover Unleashed

Source: The Mark of Athena

Source: The Great Gatsby

Source: Moonlight Mile

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Source: Lover Unbound

Source: Artemis Fowl

Source: The Daybreakers

Source: Dark Demon

Source: Choke

Source: House of Leaves

Source: The Lost Hero

Variant: Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Source: Kill the Dead

1890s
Source: Candida, Act I (1898)

Source: Darke

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

This Is Where I Leave You (2009), 2014-January-15 http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/This_Is_Where_I_Leave_You.html?id=3jVps2Z9LQcC, <br class="br">Source: This is Where I Leave You

Source: Bliss

Source: Kiss an Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

"The Limitations of Toleration" (8 May 1888), in The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol VII
Source: The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

Peeta Mellark, p. 253
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

Source: The Hunger Games

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: Fight Club

1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
Source: The Works Of John Adams, Second President Of The United States
Context: Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers. Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, of the people; and if the cause, the interest, and trust, is insidiously betrayed, or wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed, and to constitute other and better agents, attorneys and trustees.

Source: Ender's Game

Source: The Likeness

Source: Trainspotting

Source: The Trial (1920)

Source: Chicken Soup for the Soul

Source: Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

Source: Ender's Shadow

Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Source: Human Technology: A Toolkit for Authentic Living

Source: Gilead

Source: Catching Fire

Source: City of Glass

Source: The Dud Avocado

Source: Time Cat