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Might was the measure of right. -- F. L. Lucas
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. -- Thomas Hobbes
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. -- Hesiod
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong. -- Jeremy Bentham
Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results. -- Gordon Bethune
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. -- Jeremy Bentham
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. -- Peter Latham
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are. -- Dinah Maria Mulock
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. -- Eric Hobsbawm
It's fun to deliver material on live TV because it's more off-the-cuff, but I like writing better. You really can measure the joke, think an extra second and nail the right reference. -- Willie Geist
I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time. -- Patrick Stewart
Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place right now, I'd say that probably the airways are as safe as they've been in a good number of years. -- Hugh Shelton
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman. -- Mencius
Risks are a measure of people. People who don't take them are trying to preserve what they have. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards, proving where you've been. -- Paul Arden
It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow. -- James Larkin
Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it sounds, the right thing. -- Jonathan Coleman
There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine. -- Michelle Bachelet
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It really helps to know what success is before you get there, and if you know, then you can head right for it. For some people, it's the most money. For some, it's the most power. For some, it's the most girlfriends. Everybody's got a measure. For me, I guess it's having the respect and admiration of your peers. -- Gordon Bethune
Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security. -- Malcolm Turnbull
Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type. -- Roy Jenkins
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out. -- John Locke
Precedents are the disgrace of legislation. They are not wanted to justify right measures, are absolutely insufficient to excuse wrong ones. They can only be useful to heralds, dancing masters, and gentlemen ushers. -- Laurence Sterne

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