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It is very rightly said: he who has no enemies also has no friends.

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda

A person should always remember where he started in life. A person has no right to be fatherless.

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Only the strong are given the right to immortality…

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

… until we truly humble ourselves, forgetting other people, and those who are worse than we are, until we see ourselves as we are in the sight of God, and confess our sins and come it ourselves into His Almighty hands, we have no right to look for peace and happiness.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.

—Jean-Paul Sartre

Since the fall of man the earth has been a disaster area & everyone lives with a critical emergency. Nothing is normal. Everything is wrong & everyone is wrong until made right by the redeeming work of Christ & the effective operation of the Holy Spirit.

—AW Tozer

He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

—Arthur Schopenhauer

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

—Marcus Aurelius

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

—Thomas Jefferson

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

—Aristotle

To be Ukrainian means to be constantly in a state of proving one’s right to exist.

Volodymyr Vynnychenko

“It is better to be approximately right, than precisely wrong.”

Warren Buffett

The sons of God have a right and title to all, in that they are made heirs with Christ.

—John Owen

To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

“[Christ] is sitting at the right hand of God in the place of honour and favour. This is a proof that we are beloved and favoured of God, for our representative has the choicest place, at God’s right hand.”

Charles Spurgeon

“You have been quickened by God according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenlies.”

– Charles Spurgeon

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

—Voltaire

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

—George Orwell

External thinks are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

—Marcus Aurelius

Christian experience is rightly used when it helps to convince us that the events narrated in the New Testament actually did occur.

—J. Gresham Machen

There are people who take upon themselves the right to decide for others what their relationship to God and the world should be, and there are people—the vast majority—who give this right to others and blindly believe what they say. Both are equally guilty and pathetic.

—Leo Tolstoy

I have great respect for a man who can stand up for what he believes is right against all the world. He who can stand alone is a hero.

—D. L. Moody

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

—Henry Ford

The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.

—Stephen Hawking

The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.

—Stephen Hawking

Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing.

—Laozi

“Be sure, dear friends, to have as your minister a man who lives with God, and walks with God; a man who leans his head on the bosom of Jesus, and then comes forward and speaks what his Master has whispered right into his ear.”

– Charles Spurgeon

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

—Vincent Van Gogh

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.

—Socrates