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Quotes About Misdeed

If a man in love commits some misdeed ... he will suffer much more at being observed in it by his love than by his father.
~ Phaedrus
A man with a bad character is liable to be blamed for any misdeed which may be done; while a person who is not open to suspicion may commit depredation without challenge.
~ Alexander Hislop
done wrong." "No
~ Ken Follett
Karma keeps good and evil in balance. Karma is a divine law. When the law is violated, however innocently, it can't be undone. One snapped thread alters the whole design; one misdeed alters a person's destiny.
~ Deepak Chopra
All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.
~ Anonymous
With the exception of those natural disasters that are not caused by human misdeed, most of the pain, destruction, waste, and neglect towards human life that we create on this planet and beyond, are consequences of our overreaction to difference.
~ Sarah Schulman
Remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When I'm bad I am bad !
~ Henry James
Slandered for no misdeed, is certification of substance, integrity, and righteousness.
~ Brian Deschanel
He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
~ Publilius Syrus
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
~ Sigmund Freud
Spirituality means both accepting and mastering one's instincts: living one's natural desires in the light of one's principles is a prayer. It is never a misdeed, nor is it hypocrisy.
~ Tariq Ramadan
I have never encountered, not even in witchcraft trials, a dead man whom God or the Devil allowed to climb up from the abyss to erase the evidence of his misdeed—then
~ Umberto Eco
they do not relish the repentance as much as they do the crime
~ Daniel Defoe
An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
Proudhon, e.g., thinks that with the sentence "Property is theft" he has at once put a brand on property. In the sense of the priestly, theft is always a crime, or at least a misdeed
~ Max Stirner