Wrongdoing Quotes - Page 2

• 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 choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Mean, Weight

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• If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

  Mo Willems

  Self, Leaving, Stories

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• If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

  Euripides

  Virtue, Ifs

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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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 my dad as a child knows a parent, as a sort of crude outline filled in with one or two colors. I’d never seen my father scared or cry. I’d never heard him admit to any wrongdoing. I have no idea what he dreamed of. And once I’d seen a smile pinned to one cheek and darkness to the other when my mum had yelled at him. Now he was gone, and I was left with just an impression—one of male warmth, big arms, and loud laughter.

  Lloyd Jones

  Dad, Laughter, Children

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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

  Diversity, Culture, Citizens

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  People, Different, Kind

  'The Mighty and their Fall' (1961) ch. 7

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• It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Pain, Recovery, Being Alone

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• People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

  Linda Tripp

  People, Expectations, Criminals

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• I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Tools, Use, Cases

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• Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.

  Josiah Bartlett

  Physicians, Used, Standing

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• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Truth, War, Asking Questions

  Gravity's Rainbow episode 28 (1973)

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• When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Life, Freedom, Real

  "Forgiveness: You Can’t Have It Both Ways" by Maria Mayo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrongsomebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promisesI say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we startedAnd an enormous debt to boot!

  Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

  Country, Money, Jobs

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• Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

  Lillian Wald

  War, Women, History

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  Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

  John Newton

  Religious, Jesus, Memories

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• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Brother, Truth, People

  "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.

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• The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

  Aeschylus

  Evil, Sin, Young

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

  Rick Warren

  Mean, Opportunity, Calling

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 15, 2013

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• For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

  Publilius Syrus

  Causes, Virtuous, Good Causes

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 207,

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• The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Majority Vote, Principles, Moral

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• You don't have to tell people what they're doing wrong. They already know. Your job is to love them.

  Joel Osteen

  Jobs, People, Knows

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• Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you

  Lemmy Kilmister

  People, Bullshit, Waiting

  Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.

  Sigrid Undset

  Saws, Sin

  Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.214, Vintage

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