Quotes About Wrong

It is not at all surprising that the disciples imagined that the law had been abrogated, when Jesus made promises like this. For these promises reversed all popular notions of right and wrong, and pronounced a blessing on all that was accounted worthless.

An individual's reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong...

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all: solve the correct problem.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

Nina, I have tried to be patient. I have tried to help when things go wrong and you buy a book and things go well and you buy a book and it rains so you bring home some books and it's sunny so you get some books. But .

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.

First, I wanted to tell my parents what was happening to me. What had just happened again the night before. For me, this would be a confession, because I felt like I might be sinning by allowing her to continue to do these things to me. I was the victim, but somehow, I felt in the wrong.

But any explanation which analyzes one sector to the exclusion of all others is unbalanced, and thus wrong. The socio-economic, spiritual and psychological explanations look at the same phenomena from different aspects, and the very task of a theoretical analysis is to see how these different aspects are interrelated, and how they interact.

Ich lüge auch. Aber ich weiß es. Ich weiß, dass das System falsch ist. Bei uns in der Wirtschaft sieht das ein Blinder. Aber ich diene dem falschen System mit Hingabe. Denn im Rahmen des falschen Systems, dem ich mein bescheidenes Talent zur Verfügung stelle, sind die falschen Maßnahmen naturgemäß richtig und die richtigen sind begreiflicherweise falsch.

When I look back on the perils which have been overcome, upon the great mountain waves in which the gallant ship has driven, when I remember all that has gone wrong, and remember also all that has gone right, I feel sure we have no need to fear the tempest. Let it roar, and let it rage. We shall come through.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

hope no fish will come along so great that he will prove us wrong.

I have a ready response for those people: What amount of evidence would convince you that you are wrong? For the truthers, moon-landing hoaxers, and extremists on both sides of any issue, the answer is simple: nothing.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

It's comforting to blame the misfortune of others on their own actions. It's also wrong.

The only thing intelligent people hate almost as much as making mistakes is being wrong.

But she was half in love with chaos... With all her yearning for the ordinary life, she was born to admire outsiders. You could see she felt enlarged by drama and trouble, by the electric pulse of things going wrong, and her vision of the easy life remained in most ways a recurring dream.

This wicked man, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred, this monstrous product of former wrongs

The law, however, was clear – a captain on his own quarterdeck might make mistakes, but being wrong was not one of them.