Quotes About Wrongdoing

who warned Roosevelt not to antagonize the Morgan interests without any proof of major wrongdoing.

Not "unless we find out . . . they have done something we regard as wrong

People who have difficulty forgiving themselves for their past transgressions usually make one of two mistakes: they imagine their wrongdoing as being so big that it outstrips God's power to forgive, or they picture God's forgiveness as being too small to cover them. On either count, they're simply mistaken.

Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him.

Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

There's something quite fascinating with crooks and criminals and all things against the law.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

There are some people who say and do terrible things and they are not even punished for it.

But the people who did this? Hell wasn't bad enough for them.

Kierkegaard says: "An ethic which ignores sin is an absolutely idle science.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

One of irony's greatest accomplishments is that one cannot punish the wrongdoing of another without committing a wrongdoing himself.

It is against every law of the spirit world that one person can assume responsibility for another's wrongdoing.

Evil gains work their punishment.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, but not convicted, of wrongdoing? (p8)

With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.

A bad deed always brings a punishment.

Very well, sir, to crime.

What are the (4) greatest tragedies in life? 1) To commit unjust behaviors, acts. 2)To cause unjust harm to someone or something. 3) To fall victim to injustice. 4) To suffer unjust pain.

Pieces for Peace, rescue the Korean poet, ban the bomb. It's just that he's never agreed to do anything before. He wonders why, this time, he has. Not that this enterprise is any more likely to succeed than her other enterprises. But collecting signatures against RCMP Wrongdoing does not at the moment seem any more futile than most other things in his life.

Because still, in spite of everything, I have not enough faith in God. He has given me so much - which I certainly do not deserve - and I still do so much that is wrong every day.

Does innocence mean not being implicated in wrongdoing such as torture of prisoners or the "collateral damage" to hapless civilians? And is it that the citizens are innocent but not their leaders? If that is the case, isn't the system closer to the dictatorships whose horrendous crimes were attributed solely, or overwhelmingly, to the leadership and not to the followers?