Right Thing Quotes - Page 4

• My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Trying, Good Intentions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that good people do bad things. It's distressingly easy for those mechanisms to be triggered, either consciously by demagogues, or naively by people who think they're trying to do the right thing. Which is why I think it's more akin to tic-tac-toe.

  Neal Stephenson

  Thinking, Witch Trials, People

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.

  Barack Obama

  Guiding Principles, Trying, President

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• Our elected politicians do what they judge is the right thing to do. And if we disagree then I'll show them the evidence of why I disagree.

  Michael Marmot

  Judging, Politician, Evidence

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• We both [me and Andrew Ridgeley ] knew that splitting up was the right thing to do, and there was no animosity between us at all.

  George Michael

  Splitting Up, Andrew, Things To Do

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Donald Trump will do what he is told is the right thing to do in complying with the law.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Law, Trump, Things To Do

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I also like to get out there to promote a positive message about the importance of family and faith and of doing the right thing.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Messages, Importance Of Family, Doing The Right Thing

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they did the wrong thing. They're a dying institution in many parts of the world because they refuse to ordain women or married people. And now they're a dying institution because some of their members did enormous harm to young people and instead of responding aggressively with humility, and with love, and with the confession of wrongdoing, they tried to spin it as though they were a political party, and that's just deplorable.

  Anna Quindlen

  Party, Humility, Opportunity

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• It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at helping people rise into the middle class and have a good income and be able to save and send their kids to school, and you've got a vigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, then I have confidence in the black community's capabilities to then move forward.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, School, Kids

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks didn't have our backs. And as a consequence, I think that just spurred us on that much more to make us want to do the right thing, and do our best in the positions that we have.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Support, Want

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I don't care if I end up in jail or Guantánamo or whatever, kicked out of a plane with two gunshots in the face. I did what I did because I believe it is the right thing to do, and I will continue to do that.

  Edward Snowden

  Believe, Two, Jail

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy, Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.

  Al Sharpton

  Dad, Challenges, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.

  Al Sharpton

  Believe, Cities, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture as well as the American culture, then we've done something that's really good and supporting these fishermen who are doing the right thing in sustainability . . . paying attention to make sure we don't overfish our world.

  Mario Batali

  Italian, Our World, Culture

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I've lost a lot. I've lost money, and my reputation has taken a hit for taking the high road to protect my dignity, to protect children, and for other good causes. But I don't think there's ever too steep a price for doing the right thing.

  Gabrielle Union

  Children, Taken, Thinking

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• It was very much that feeling of having worked so hard on Da Vinci's for three years without seeing sunlight that, unless the right thing came along, I didn't want to do it.

  Tom Riley

  Years, Feelings, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• But often, it's easier to resist temptation with distraction, or to be so inculcated in doing the right thing that it's automatic, outside the frontal cortex's portfolio - Then it isn't the harder thing, it's the only thing you can do.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Temptation, Portfolios, Distraction

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We were very effective, and I was very effective, in shaping public opinion around my campaigns. But there were big stretches, while governing, where even though we were doing the right thing, we weren't able to mobilize public opinion firmly enough behind us to weaken the resolve of the Republicans to stop opposing us or to cooperate with us. And there were times during my presidency where I lost the PR battle.

  Barack Obama

  Battle, Public Opinion, Campaigns

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Important, Credibility, Important Things

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• In the past decade, there have been a lot of friends or directors, either gossiping or telling me directly, "What you're doing now is the right thing, your main concern should be taking care of yourself, and not doing action at your age." Well, after first feeling angry, I'd think, to be honest, I really am older. So I thought, all right, but before I retire I'd like to make one last major action film, one good one.

  Jackie Chan

  Past, Thinking, Feelings

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• You may not be able to convince everyone around you that you're doing the right thing, but you don't have to subject yourself to endless second-guessing from others, either.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Guessing, May, Able

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I want to do the right thing for the American people. And to be honest, secondarily, I want to do the right thing for the world.

  Donald Trump

  People, World, Want

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Doe, Scientist

  "Mosquitos, malaria and education". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2009.

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• I initially thought it was going to feel weird to be [on Sundance] while [the marches against now-President Donald Trump] was happening. And feel disconnected in that way that feels irresponsible. But the other side of it is that there are people here who believe the right things that are trying to make a difference with art.

  Elijah Wood

  Art, Believe, Differences

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing.

  Bill Gates

  Country, War, Epidemics

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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