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Quotes About Wrong

integrity—in their specific sense of harmony between belief and action—may lack value when the underlying belief is badly wrong. And one way to determine when the belief is badly wrong is its tendency to cause harm to others.
~ John Corvino
Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.
~ John Donne
Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
~ John Dryden
We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.
~ Ludwig von Mises
It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an inner life, privacy. And I think there must be something wrong.
~ Martin Amis
You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.
~ Anne Fortier
Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?
~ Caroline Knapp
I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.
~ Marie Lu, Champion
I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
~ Billy Joel
Indeed the Idols I have loved so longHave done my credit in this World much wrong:Have drown'd my Glory in a shallow Cup,And sold my Reputation for a Song.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
Socialism really works under some circumstances. Karl Marx just had the wrong species.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species
~ Edward O. Wilson
The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.
~ Edward T. Welch
not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.
~ Edward Tenner
If instead it reacted it meant that precedents had failed me and I was wrong; and the only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong.
~ Edwin Lefevre
One fire was on his spirit, one resolve - To send the keen axe to the root of wrong, Clearing a free way to the feet of God, The eyes of conscience testing every stroke.
~ Edwin Markham
To consider as; wrong is wrong and right is right, without distinctions, qualifies fair and transparent justice.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
I had too many worries and, whatever I did, the feeling of always being in the wrong.
~ Elena Ferrante
How many perfect autumns did a person get? Why did I seem always to be in the wrong place, listening to the wrong music?
~ Elif Batuman
To give yourself over to an evil is, in some measure, to pretend that what you know is wrong is right, and then, to justify yourself, you must give yourself over to it all the more.
~ Anthony M. Esolen
Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him. 
~ Anthony Trollope
I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.
~ Antony Beevor
A good thought with a bad or selfish intention will have the multiple ill-effects on the motivation of the audience than even a bit of wrong impact from the bad words of a good or selfless person.
~ Anuj Somany
Mother nature poses often many challenges to a person who is true to his own real nature to make him strong; but to those people who are not usually real to their true character it hardly keeps hurdles on their life's path to make them go wrong.
~ Anuj Somany