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Quotes About Reparation

Not mentally. But I haven't the courage of my views, as I said before. I didn't marry him altogether because of the scandal. But sometimes a woman's LOVE OF BEING LOVED gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.
~ Thomas Hardy
There's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.
~ George Eliot
As you know, I've been sick and stupid for a long time. I have a lot to make up for
~ Tom Robbins
Understanding without vengeance, reparation without retaliation, are possible only if we are willing to stop justifying our own position.
~ Carol Tavris
If our forefathers make the world awry, must our children be the ones to pay to right it?
~ Geraldine Brookes
The least I can do after standing you up tonight is make you feel manly.
~ J.D. Robb
A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
~ Walter Scott
The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves.
~ Malcolm X
We're not thieves. We're repatriating money that rich Cubans stole from poor Cubans so it can be returned to the rich Cubans who stole it.
~ Nelson DeMille
We're not thieves. We're repatriating
~ Nelson DeMille
Americans, they'll have a legal means to recover
~ Nelson DeMille
Are you still mad because i broke your phone" Jace said. "Because you broke my wrist, so i'd said we're even" "It was sprained," Alec said. "Not broken, sprained
~ Cassandra Clare
If our forefathers make the world awry, must our children be the ones who pay to right it?
~ Geraldine Brooks
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Don't think of this as extinction. Think of this as downsizing. For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Si arrojas un jarrón al suelo, sus pedazos no volverán a unirse cuando tú desaparezcas. El mal que hacemos no puede ser deshecho; solo podemos tratar de compensarlo de alguna manera.
~ Laura Gallego García
Si arrojas un jarrón al suelo, sus pedazos no volverán a unirse cuando tú desaparezcas —le había explicado Ren—. El mal que hacemos no puede ser deshecho; solo podemos tratar de compensarlo de alguna manera.
~ Laura Gallego García
Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.
~ Lee Scott
I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.
~ Orson Scott Card
I stole their future from them; I can only begin to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.
~ Orson Scott Card
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this — no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
~ Will Rogers (1879–1935)
True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.
~ Lawana Blackwell
Because assigning blame assigns responsibility. So I blame myself and give myself the responsibility to make it right.
~ Lena Matthews
This was his plan of amends — of atonement — for inheriting their father's estate;
~ Jane Austen