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Quotes About Wrong

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.
~ Paul Hawken
I hate to be wrong. It makes me feel like a failure. Being wrong has the same affect on me as a lack of food or sleep. It lowers my entire mood. But, I need to be proved wrong sometimes, as it restores humility, and doesn't allow my ego to swell to stupidly big sizes.
~ Unknown
Everything I say is right. "Everything I say is wrong. There are many conflicting opinions in this industry. Don't take one person's word as gospel, including mine. Take what works for you.
~ Unknown
They are more likely to hear that you are trying to win an argument by calling them insane and telling them that everything about them is wrong.
~ Unknown
The multitude is always in the wrong.
~ Paulo Freire
Nay, a reckoning I might ask For the life, love, liberty That through thee I've lost so long: Thine 'tis rather to thank me, That I do not claim from thee Compensation for my wrong.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Wealth and dominion fade into the mass Of the great sea of human right and wrong, When once from our possession they must pass; But love, though misdirected, is among The things which are immortal, and surpass All that frail stuff which will be - or which was.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
tomes / Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Well, normally I'm against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big." — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
~ Pete Seeger
We then devolve into a polarized process of negative-noticing – an incessant preoccupation with defects and hazards. We perseverate about everything that has gone or could go wrong.
~ Unknown
I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.
~ Peter Cook
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
~ Peter Drucker
I have not sinned against you, but you have done me wrong by waging war against me. May the LORD, the Judge, decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”
~ Judges 11:27
So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
~ 2 Kings 18:14
And in the presence of the king and his princes, Memucan replied, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the princes and the peoples in all the provinces of King Xerxes.
~ Esther 1:16
Of David. Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.
~ Psalm 37:1
or to governors as those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.
~ 1 Peter 2:14