Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

The saying asserts that moral truth is not determined by popularity or social consensus: an action’s rightness or wrongness remains the same whether it is widely practiced or widely condemned. It expresses a classic natural-law and conscience-centered view of ethics, often associated with Christian moral teaching, in which objective standards stand above custom, fashion, or majority behavior. In practical terms, it encourages moral courage—doing what is right even when isolated—and warns against the “everyone does it” excuse for wrongdoing. Although frequently attributed to Augustine, the sentiment is more a modern aphoristic formulation than a securely traceable Augustinian line.