R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Righteous women in their circle of influence,
beginning in the home, can turn the world around.”
“Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.”
“Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame - if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed.”
“Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others.”
“Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and faithfulness go before you.”
Source: My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World
“Righteousness and love, law and grace, life and death, as well as time and eternity all intersect at the cross; displaying a divine wisdom that staggers the imagination and leads the humble heart to bow in thankful adoration. To understand the cross of Christ is to understand the heart of God toward a fallen world He wants to save.”
“Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.”
Source: Justice in War-time
“Righteousness exalteth a nation.”
“Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.”
“Righteousness gives strength.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Righteousness has never precluded adversity.”
“Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.”
Source: Marry Me, Carry Me
“Righteousness is divine power that enables us to become what we have created to be. It is name-change power!”
“Righteousness is easy in retrospect.”
“Righteousness is not proven in lofty proclamations, but in humble deeds that echo beyond the mountains.”
“Righteousness is the compass of our moral journey, guiding us through the tempests of temptation towards the shores of virtuous purpose.”
“Righteousness of faith leads to repentance.”
“RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries . .”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.”
“Rightful King (The Sonnet)
The rightful king is one who dissolves the kingdom.
The rightful politician is one who dissolves the party.
The rightful ruler is one who wants only to serve.
The rightful citizen is always steadfast in accountability.
Long live the Queen and Heil Hitler are one and the same,
For both are sign of absolute allegiance without question.
Allegiance to king and country keeps a land uncivilized,
Allegiance to ideology and tradition destroys all ascension.
Let there be no king and queen, let there be no kingdom,
Let there be no party and let there be no authoritarianism.
The force that builds a world doesn't come from bloodline,
For character is beyond the grasp of our puny sectarianism.
In a civilized society we are all king, we are all policymaker.
The world advances when we advance as its fervent keeper.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“Rightful relations between humans and anymals are spiritually significant in every major religion. Core religious teachings from around the world require humans to protect and respect all that is natural, to show compassion for all who are sentient, and in contemporary times, to rethink our relations with anymals—especially what we eat.”
Source: Animals and World Religions
“Rightful Thoughts lead to Thriving Life.”
Source: THE HONEYMOON: A SACRED AND UNFORGETTABLE SAVOUR OF A BLISSFUL MARITAL JOURNEY
“Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the shadows sooner or later into sunshine, and when one is at its darkest point one can be certain that presently it will grow brighte.”
“Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.”
“Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)
“Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch.”
“Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ would. But İ can't.”
“Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.”
“Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle
“Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.”
Source: Social Statics, Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed
“Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.”
“Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.”
Source: Euripides
“Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.
Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.”
“Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.”
Source: RELIGION IN THE MAKING
“Rights and duties, sounded more
entertaining than duties and rights.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.”
Source: Faith and Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World
“Rights and responsibilities always go hand in hand. Do remember the responsibilities you deny could very well be someone else's rights”
“Rights and responsibilities are ... different sides of the same coin.”
“Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.”
Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works
“Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection.
(V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)”
“Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.”
“Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.”
Source: A History of American Political Theories
“Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.”
Source: An enemy hath done this
“Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.”
“Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.”
Source: A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
“Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.”
Source: Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings
“Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.”
“Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute because their role is to protect our liberty. By using the absolute power of freedom to accomplish reforms of democracy, we have undermined democracy and diminished our freedom.”
Source: The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America