Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.
Mark Twain
2007-11-25 05:42:22 · 6 answers · asked by kelly 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
and do you htink this would work in an essay about huck fiin and twains views on soctiety
2007-11-25 05:48:29 · update #1
"To thine own self be true."
2007-11-25 05:48:10 · answer #1 · answered by Ranto 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means you should have and follow your own ideas of right and wrong, regardless of whether others label you for it.
Morality comes from within, and doesn't stop to see which way the winds of popularity blow.
2007-11-25 13:44:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Im not Mark Twain; therefore I dont know
2007-11-25 13:45:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You have to decide for yourself what is write and wrong and act on what you believe is right.
It doesn't matter what people say.
2007-11-25 13:47:05 · answer #4 · answered by customizedsongwriter Mike McCracken 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
that you have to decide things for your self, and that to choose something against your own will means you are dishonoring yourself and your country.
2007-11-25 13:46:57 · answer #5 · answered by AJ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Stand up for what you believe in
2007-11-25 17:09:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋