Quotes About Wrong

He was very decided in his manners and made her understand that he would employ no lawyer on his own behalf. "Why should I want a lawyer? I have done nothing wrong," he said. Then she tried to make him understand that many who may have done nothing wrong require a lawyer's aid. "And who is to pay him?

I shall have charity enough to believe that they are wrong, through error of judgment; but should I see him attacked by those who ought to know him, and to love him, and revere him, of such I shall be constrained to form a different opinion.

Let us now turn to their circumstances and their victims. People do wrong, then, when they think that the deed can be done, and can be done by them — which is to say that they think either† (a) they can get away with it, or (b) that if they are caught they will avoid punishment, or (c) that if they are punished the penalty paid by themselves or those they care for will be less than their profits.

Someone once said that for every problem there is a solution that is simple, attractive ... and wrong.

The familiar can be as shocking as the strange—when it is in the wrong place.

We are all measured, good or evil, by the wrong we do to others;

I feel a bit apprehensive as I see that he's looking directly at me. But I'm not doing anything wrong, am I? I mean, it's not like stalking is against the law. Oh. Well, OK, maybe stalking is against the law. But I've only been doing it for five minutes. Surely that doesn't count. And anyway, how does he know I'm stalking anyone? I might just be sitting here for my pleasure.

It is not right if I am wrong. But if I am young, and right, what does my age matter?

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!

Jimmy: The injustice of it is almost perfect! The wrong people going hungry, the wrong people being loved, the wrong people dying!

We desire the wrong things, and we desire right things in the wrong way. And both are deadly—like eating pleasant poison.

Physical pain is God's trumpet blast to tell us that something is dreadfully wrong in the world.

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.

there is nothing so dangerous in its consequences as injustice to individuals- whether it arise from prejudice of color or from any other source; that a wrong done to one man is a wrong to society and to the world.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression...

Freud's ideas, as usual, turned out to be both remarkably prescient and utterly wrong.

maybe Morgana doesn't care about the costs. And she does claim, and I think she truly believes this, that the world would be better under her rule. But maybe I'm wrong.

Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler