This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
No man has a moral right to use his property, a creature of God, against the children of God. Racial discrimination even in the use of purely private property, is immoral at least as transgressing the supreme law of charity.
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
Deprivation of the right of association with his fellow-men is the basic and fundamental reason for the immorality of racial segregation.
Association | Men | Reason | Right | Association |
Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.
Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze
The greatest wisdom seems like stupidity. The greatest eloquence like stuttering. Movement overcomes cold, but staying overcomes heat. So he by his limpid calm puts everything right under heaven.
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
Consequences | Honor | Right |
Paul Wilhelm von Keppler, Bishop of the Diocese of Rottenburg
Joy is a constituent of life, a necessity of life; it is an element of life’s value and life’s power. As every man has need of joy, so too, every man has a right to joy… It is a condition of religious living.
Joy | Life | Life | Man | Necessity | Need | Power | Right | Value |
Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze
Throw away holiness and wisdom and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing. Throw away industry and profit, and there won’t be any thieves.
Industry | Justice | Morality | People | Right | Will | Wisdom |
That government is or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of mal-administration, and that whenever any government shall be found inadequate, or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter or abolish it in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the weal.
Administration | Danger | Government | Majority | People | Reform | Right | Security | Government | Danger | Happiness |
Mahavagga of the Vinaya Texts NULL
This middle path… is the noble path, namely: right views, right intent, right speech, right conduct, right means of livelihood, right endeavor, right mindfulness, right meditation… Which leads to insights, leads to wisdom, which conduces to calm, to knowledge, to perfect enlightenment, to Nirvana.
Conduct | Enlightenment | Knowledge | Means | Meditation | Mindfulness | Right | Speech | Wisdom |
Golda Meir, originally named Goldie Mabovitch, later Goldie Myerson
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
George McGovern, fully George Stanley McGovern
The free market should not include the right to pollute our environment.
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You must remember that some things that are legally right are not morally right.
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Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Duty | Faith | Right | Understand |