Quotes About Wrong

The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

There is a strength of conviction that can only come from being 100% wrong.

We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere.""Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell.

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

Nobody is right till somebody is wrong, nobody is weak till somebody is strong, nobody is lucky till love comes along, nobody is lonely till somebody is gone.

Nobody is right till somebody is wrong. Nobody is weak till somebody is strong.. Nobody is lucky till love comes along... Nobody is lonely till loved one gone...

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

So the guys who are supposed to be figuring out the truth are ignoring it because they don't want to admit they were wrong?" Shay grinned. "Funny how that works, isn't it?

Sometimes, good people got on the wrong side of an argument. Sometimes, bad people got on the right side. The truth wasn't anyone's to control.

intentions in the world, cannot fix what is wrong

It was five months since Haig had told the British War Council: 'The machine gun is a much over-rated weapon and two per battalion is more than sufficient.' He was once again being proved terribly wrong.

For even the heathen poet said, "I was wrong in thinking that that kingdom which is established by force is stronger than that which is joined together by friendship."6

Therefore the ungodly will not rise in the judgment," because the Jews do not confess their wrong and do not accuse themselves. But as the righteous man is the first to accuse himself, so the ungodly man is the first to defend himself. Thus the Jews do not accuse their own ungodliness but defend it.

Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

Deb, justice is every man's fight. To right a terrible wrong and make evil men pay for their crimes is part of why I'm going, but there's more. It's not just about punishing the men who attacked your wagon train. These men are dangerous. They'll hurt more folks if they aren't stopped.

For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong with violence or a burnt offering. And I will faithfully give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant or league with them.