Wrongdoing Quotes - Page 5

• America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Dirty, Reality, America

  "Pssst... Nobody Loves a Torturer". www.newsweek.com. November 13, 2005.

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• I'm very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing, any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.

  Sarah Palin

  Lying, Power, Hints

  "Four Pinocchios for Palin". voices.washingtonpost.com. October 13, 2008.

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• I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

  Bertie Ahern

  Areas

  "Bertiespeak: Blasts From the Past". www.independent.ie. July 05, 2007.

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• There are two ways of confronting the country's problems.One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism.

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi

  Country, Law, Play

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• Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Sin, Ashamed, Confessing

  "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Sixth Day, Novel LX (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.

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• Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

  Myrtle Reed

  Doe, Harm

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

  Dick Cavett

  Criticism, Dying, Virtue

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.10, Henry Holt and Company

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• I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of everything, even the worst... I believe that even our mistakes and wrongdoing are not fruitless.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mistake, Believe, Able

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• Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.

  Barack Obama

  Integrity, Government, Speaks Out

  "Obama Urged to Back New Whistleblower Act" by Ed O'Keefe, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 2009.

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• History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Heart, Essentials

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• You should be able to criticize civil servants for what you think is wrongdoing without being painted as a cop-hater. I don't feel the police are all corrupt, however I do feel they are suffering from institutional racism and there needs to be a top-to-bottom examination of the way they practice and the way they criminalize young black and brown males. The fact that they seem to have backed off from it seems to suggest they realize they overreacted on me and it looks bad.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Thinking, Practice, Racism

  "Q&A: Tarantino on the battles behind 'The Hateful Eight'". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 22, 2015.

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• Based on a string of bad breakups, I was forced to examine my choice of partners. Surely, that must have abolished me from any wrongdoing.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Breakup, Choices, Partners

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• Can you envision a world without men? No wrongdoing and bunches of euphoric, fat women.

  Nicole Hollander

  Men, World, Bunch

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• Not in the sense of investigators saying that she [Lula] was personally enriched as a result of the scandal, but there are new reports emerging this week claiming that she may have had a hand in trying to derail the investigations. She was chairwoman of the board for years, so she has come under a good deal of criticism over not having identified the wrongdoing at that time.

  Simon Romero

  Hands, Years, Trying

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• If there are issues, if there's wrongdoing, people have to be held accountable and we have to try to deter future bad behavior.

  Hillary Clinton

  Issues, People, Trying

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• People always ask me what I think, if Edward Snoden is a hero, if he's a villain. I don't really tend to moralize it so much as I feel like he's a whistleblower. He's someone who saw a wrongdoing and in order to shine a light on that wrongdoing had to bend some rules and break some laws along the way.

  Zachary Quinto

  Hero, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they did the wrong thing. They're a dying institution in many parts of the world because they refuse to ordain women or married people. And now they're a dying institution because some of their members did enormous harm to young people and instead of responding aggressively with humility, and with love, and with the confession of wrongdoing, they tried to spin it as though they were a political party, and that's just deplorable.

  Anna Quindlen

  Party, Humility, Opportunity

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• There are just too many opportunities - and an increasing number of them - to hide systemic, institutional wrongdoing behind legal veils, legal theories, and arbitrary exemptions. I hope that we can start to chip away at this, but it sure looks like society is still sliding in the opposite direction.

  Chelsea Manning

  Opportunity, Opposites, Numbers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have been a friend of Paul Manafort's for, I don't know, almost 50 years. We go back to Young Republicans together. He has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and I choose to take him at his word.

  Roger Stone

  Years, Together, Republican

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Even if you think you're doing well and have it all figured out, there is a voice you will always inevitably hear at some point which nags at you and says "but wait..." Don't ever dismiss it, listen to what it has to say. Life will never be close enough to perfect, and listening to that voice means stepping outside of yourself and considering your own wrongdoings and flaws.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Mean, Thinking, Voice

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• It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

  Moliere

  Crazy, Mad, Stupidity

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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 arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Evil, Needs, World

  John Patrick Shanley (2008). “Doubt (movie tie-in edition)”, p.30, Theatre Communications Group

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• Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, People, Intimidating

  "NSA whistleblower whereabouts reportedly unknown as authorities consider charges", www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2013.

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