Wrongdoing Quotes
73 quotes by 64 authors
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A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.
— Ruta Sepetys
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For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch…
— Bell Hooks
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
— Moliere
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world…
— Rumi
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and…
— Aldous Huxley
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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
— Jane Austen
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As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
— Hannah Arendt
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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...It is a sin…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.
— Anna Godbersen
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One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew…
— Lloyd Jones
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Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.
— Anna Godbersen
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If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations…
— John Patrick Shanley
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On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
— Aldous Huxley
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness,…
— Veronica Roth
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means…
— Veronica Roth
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Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail.
— Charles Sturridge
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The Obama administration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classified information. They are more responsible for such leaks than anyone. What they hate are leaks…
— Glenn Greenwald
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Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but the defendant neither admits nor…
— Jed S. Rakoff
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Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
— James Stephens
Who Wrote These Wrongdoing Quotes
64 authors contributed a total of 73 Wrongdoing Quotes, led by these top contributors: