Quotes About Wrongs

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

Oh, learn to pity your own soul, for he who sins offends and wrongs God, but also wrongs and destroys his own soul

Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.

Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.

For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

Marshall McLuhan was harsh but not wrong when he observed, "Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity." Recommitment often means putting your own sins on the table. Forbearance means acknowledging the wrongs that have been committed, and even the anger that they have created, but it puts

Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

the universe keeps things balanced by placing those with the abilities to right wrongs in the path of evil. And no matter where you're standing, that path is going to run right through you.

I think it would be more correct to say that mass movements are powerful, and therefore have the potential to do great damage or good. The United States mobilized in a way that could be called a mass movement to fight the Second World War–and so did the Japanese. Were those mass movements good or bad? Both nations felt justified in what they did, and the rights and wrongs depend on which side you are on.

What whites are now expected to think about race can be summarized as follows: Race is an insignificant matter and not a valid criterion for any purpose—except perhaps for redressing wrongs done to non-whites.

Welcome to the world of translation—a compromised world of half-rights and half-wrongs.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

But also it is not only expedient, there is something more, a feeling that we of Germany have found our destiny and that the future sweeps toward us in an overwhelming wave. We too must move. We must go with it. Even now there are being wrongs done. The storm troopers are having their moment of victory, and there are bloody heads

Whatever the rights or wrongs of their affection, in the teeth of danger and despair love is entitled to speak its mind, and all others should be blind and deaf.

life was full of poignant truths and wrongs that could never be righted. There was nothing to be gained from wallowing in them.

Rachel Morgan, private runner for hire. All rights earnestly upheld. All wrongs sincerely avenged.

Why must you comprehend the process of change and form your mind on that basis before you can have a teacher? Even an idiot has his teacher. But to fail to abide by this mind and still insist upon your rights and wrongs—this is like saying that you set off for Yue today and got there yesterday

So, where does it come from, the fury? A thousand indignities, a thousand wrongs, like tiny knife wounds, shredding a person's humanity. In time only the tattered remnants are left. And in the end they ask themselves — what good is this to me? And they throw the last of it away.

Appeasement is simply an attempt to redress those same wrongs.

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Distant wrongs, she thought: an interesting issue in moral philosophy. Do past wrongs seem less wrong to us simply because they are less vivid?