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Quotes About Wrongdoing

Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't need laws.
~ Alan Dershowitz
O my people! Ye have indeed wronged yourselves by your worship of the calf: so turn (in repentance) to your Maker, and slay yourselves (the wrongdoers); that will be better for you in the sight of your Maker.
~ Abdullah Yusuf Ali
The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, not that he is a thief. #ReasonbehindApology
~ Proverb
He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
~ Publilius Syrus
The man who does ill must suffer ill.
~ Aeschylus
wrongdoing has a way of robbing one even of common sense. Why
~ Ravi Zacharias
Only the single word "innocent" ("without wrongdoing" [1.137.7]) suggests the slightest sympathy for the murdered Nishadas. They are sacrificial substitutes, whom the author of this text treats as expendable because he regards them as subhuman beings.
~ Wendy Doniger
Only an Englishman of Morgan's class could call a queer suicide with overtones of financial wrongdoing a "muddle".
~ James Lear
we've come to understand sin as a kind of moral failing, but that interpretation actually comes from the power structures of the church and religious authorities. If you can convince somebody that they are inherently impure and that there is a mistake at the center of their being, then sin becomes a wrongdoing that deserves blame.
~ Adyashanti
The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
~ Aeschylus
Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.
~ Aeschylus
God created us with emotions, and anger is one of them. Feeling the emotion of anger is not the problem. The problem is when we let our anger trigger actions that result in wrongdoing.
~ Karen Ehman
Can you envision a world without men? No wrongdoing and bunches of euphoric, fat women.
~ Nicole Hollander
The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
~ Aeschylus
He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin
~ Charles Hodge
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
~ Homer
Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.
~ John Foster Dulles
Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.
~ Lee Strobel
You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.
~ Willie Brown
If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
~ Timothy Keller
I don't fear jail because I know I'm not guilty. I know I did nothing wrong. I did nothing criminal and I also believe my God will get me through this.
~ Kenneth Lay
While police officers who blatantly shaft the common people believe that they are God, they are the Devil to those that they wrong.
~ Steven Magee
Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.
~ Edward Snowden
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
~ Jean Racine