Because of your goodness, your rightness

So this is one reason, a structural reason, why we get stuck inside this feeling of rightness.

I wish to assure you that Ukraine will spare no effort in continuing to prove the rightness of his words.

The experience of the past decade in improving the status of women and the disabled confirms the rightness of such an approach.

This attachment to our own rightness keeps us from preventing mistakes when we absolutely need to and causes us to treat each other terribly.

This attachment to our own rightness keeps us from preventing mistakes when we absolutely need to and causes us to treat each other terribly.

This internal sense of rightness that we all experience so often is not a reliable guide to what is actually going on in the external world.

For strength unalloyed by checks and balances and by a capacity for self critical reflection about the rightness and wrongness of state action can be unnerving.

This internal sense of rightness that we all experience so often is not a reliable guide to what is actually going on in the external world.

All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

A value judgment is a judgment of the rightness or wrongness of something or someone, or of the usefulness of something or someone, based on a comparison or other relativity.

The late American philosopher John Rawls suggested that the best way to judge the rightness of any social policy is to put oneself in the place of the underdogs before reaching a conclusion.

And when we asked them a variety of questions about the rightness or wrongness of certain acts, what we also found was that simply being reminded that they ought to wash their hands made them more morally conservative.

Through these world conferences it has been possible to reach women in all walks of life in every corner of the globe and to awaken in them an awareness of the rightness of empowerment and equality and their entitlements.

The late American philosopher John Rawls suggested that the best way to judge the rightness of any social policy is to put oneself in the place of the underdogs before reaching a conclusion. A decision is right if it improves the situation of a society's worst off.

And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other and look out at the vastness and complexity and mystery of the universe and be able to say,

And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other and look out at the vastness and complexity and mystery of the universe and be able to say, Wow, I don't know.

They were denied their fundamental right to self determination and also had to cope with the extremely precarious material and moral conditions found in any refugee camp. However, far from adopting a defeatist attitude, the Saharan people, being convinced of the rightness of their cause and the legitimacy of their struggle, had achieved in the camps what they had not achieved in Western Sahara.