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Quotes About Wronged

When we are wronged, we must seek revenge. It is in our culture, our bloodstream. Each time you kill or torture us, you are creating an extended family of enemies that is honor bound to take retribution. - Ibrahim Fawaz
~ Daniel Silva
How could he forgive her if he didn't know she'd wronged him? How could she assuage her guilt without his forgiveness?
~ Rachel Hartman
I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.
~ Elizabeth Vargas
If taxes represent our absolute debt to the society that created us, then the first step toward creating real money comes when we start calculating much more specific debts to society, systems of fines, fees, and penalties, or even debts we owe to specific individuals who we have wronged in some way, and thus to whom we stand in a relation of "sin" or
~ David Graeber
Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.
~ W. H. Auden
Fear the pleading prayer of a wronged one, for there is no veil between it and Allah.
~ Muhammad
The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.
~ Wystan Hugh Auden
Of course Jonah is angry. When you haven't forgiven someone who has wronged you and then something good happens to them—when they are blessed or shown mercy or experience favor—it's infuriating.
~ Rob Bell
In that manner Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father's inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant, deprived of the advantage of wages: quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness, and his ignorance that he has been wronged.
~ Emily Bronte
The Chinese alive today are reincarnations of torturers. The wronged souls of the past will haunt us for ever. We must pay for the sins of our ancestors.
~ Ma Jian
Having evidence of being wronged does not stop you from being judged as in the wrong.
~ Sara Ahmed
For better or worse, civil litigation is generally driven by economics. If somebody thinks they've been wronged, they go to court and ask for money.
~ Sheldon Siegel
Thus those who suffered personal misfortune and those who suffered the pain of the wronged world were together in the nude tomb of wine, and could be like spirits, finally parted from this world of suffering and wrongs.
~ Elio Vittorini
When I have been wronged by my spouse and she has painfully confessed it and requested forgiveness, I have the option of justice or forgiveness.
~ Gary Chapman
It is one thing to be the common-or-garden villain who says, I don't care if I have wronged you by breaking my word or stealing your goods. But it is another to achieve the rather extraordinary pitch of villainy, which says, I don't even recognize that you have a complaint. A society in which people are incapable of recognizing others as having a complaint, whatever they do, would be one without an ethic - but for that very reason, it would be hard to recognize it as a society at all.
~ Simon Blackburn
That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
~ Solon
Like Hitler in 1923, Putin from 1991 onwards breathed a poisonous fiction, that his country had been wronged, that it 'had been stabbed in the back'. In truth, it fell apart because it had been wrong, it had stabbed itself in the front, three times over.
~ John Sweeney
His mind was freshly inclined toward sorrow; toward the fact that the world was full of sorrow; that everyone labored under some burden of sorrow; that all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged, neglected, overlooked
~ George Saunders
Being punished for something you did not do. Or being an innocent victim. It's just something that I never want to experience.
~ Stephen Chbosky
She had known that he could be cruel, that he was basically heartless, but she had never had face-to-face proof of the fact before. The voice and the facial expression that she had witnessed during that walk . . . had made him a stranger to her. She had never seen him cold, sneering, sarcastic before. He had behaved as if he hated her. But why? She was the one who had been wronged, hurt almost beyond bearing six years before. Was it conscience that had made him turn upon her with such contempt?
~ Mary Balogh
It is not just pastors who get surprised, but it is easy for pastors to harbor the presumption that when we are wronged or ignored or dismissed, God himself is being blasphemed.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Even if Shawn and Paul wanted to team up to murder people they thought had wronged them, there seemed little chance that the woman she'd just met would have had any part in that.
~ Maureen Johnson
when a poor man's wronged, he becomes a very difficult customer. To start with, he gets a lot of sympathy: and then he takes his bad treatment not just as an injury, but as a personal insult.
~ Menander