"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
"It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right." ― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
"When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong." ― Victoria Schwab, Vicious
"So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after." ― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
"It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong." ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong." "But the Almighty determines what is right!" "Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution." ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
"One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy." ― Alain de Botton
"There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it." ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot." ― Mark Twain, What is Man?
"Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong." ― Prince
"… Who cares about the crowded, broad road? I'll walk the single-plank bridge into the night…" ― 墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
"What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?" ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
"In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods — her fertile fields — her beautiful rivers — her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, my joy is soon turned to mourning. When I remember that all is cursed with the infernal actions of slaveholding, robbery and wrong, — when I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten, and that her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing." ― Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
"Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like." ― Elmore Leonard
"It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong." ― John Maynard Keynes
"You are always a little bit wrong" ― Hank Green
"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right." ― Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelms
"Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings." ― Robert Bloch
"Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you." ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
"You don't understand," gasped Eli. "No one understands." "When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong." ― V.E. Schwab, Vicious
"The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal." ― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
"What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes — the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or, spin it another way, sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?" ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. " ― Ayn Rand
"Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right." ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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