Rightly Quotes

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?

They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so.