Misdeeds Quotes - Page 2

• It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

  Tacitus

  Law, Found, Precedent

  Tacitus (2013). “The Annals”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Government, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• If we view our children as stupid, naughty, disturbed, or guilty of their misdeeds, they will learn to behold themselves as foolish, faulty, or shameful specimens of humanity. They will regard us as judges from whom they wish to hide, and they will interpret everything we say as further proof of their unworthiness. If we view them as innocent, or at least merely ignorant, they will gain understanding from their experiences, and they will continue to regard us as wise partners.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Wise, Children, Stupid

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.

  Anne Bronte

  Mother, Character, Eye

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.197, Diversion Books

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• God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, People

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

  James Bryant Conant

  Tyrants, Political, Magic

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• A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Past, America, Justice

  "Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., p. 109, 1967.

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• Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  School, Loss, Tears

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1131, Delphi Classics

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• It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Eye, Responsibility, Knights

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• The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.

  Steve Martin

  Men, Dust, Order

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• To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Fall, Errors

  Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.35, Pluto Press

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• Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Thinking, Men, Self

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds. —Matthias

  Brian Jacques

  Warrior, Evil, Bravery

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• If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Cells, Years

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• A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Character, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Book, Writing, Justice

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• The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

  Khalil Gibran

  Democracy, Half, Guilty

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

  Aldous Huxley

  Fun, War, Yesterday

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• The Raven's house is built with reeds, — Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the hollow tree; And the Raven himself, telling his beads In penance for his past misdeeds, Upon the top I see.

  Thomas D

  Weed, Past, Ravens

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• By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Memories, Depth, Shame

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.

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• Should one permit an infidel to continue in his role as a Corrupter of the Earth, the moral suffering of the infidel will be all the worse. Should one kill the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Blessing, Suffering, Roles

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• Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

  William James

  Apology, Opportunity, Men

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.134, Booklassic

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• A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, War, Violence

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Angela Richards (1971). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Everything Hitler did to the Jews, all the horribly unspeakable misdeeds, had already been done to the smitten people before by the Christian churches. . . . The isolation of Jews into ghetto camps, the wearing of the yellow spot, the burning of Jewish books, and finally the burning of the people - Hitler learned it all from the church. However, the church burned Jewish women and children alive, while Hitler granted them a quicker death, choking them first with gas.

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Christian, Children, Book

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• Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness — justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Determination, Past

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