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Quotes About Wrong

A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line.
~ Oliver Stone
Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.
~ Henry Ford
Wrong way, Bones. The men's showers are in the opposite direction." I'll file that away with all the other information that doesn't pertain to me" was Bones' mocking reply.
~ Jeaniene Frost
Morning, sunshine." Vlad blinked at her. "Morning, sulfuric acid." "Pardon me?" "Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'?
~ Heather Brewer
Everywhere you look you see people searching for love but they're looking in the wrong places. God is love, and they will never find what they're looking for until they find Him.
~ Joyce Meyer
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
~ Swami Vivekananda
You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.
~ Seth Godin
Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
~ Aristotle
Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.
~ Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
~ Frank Herbert
How wrong and petty any life is.
~ David Wojahn, Mystery Train
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.
~ Carl Schurz
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
~ Thomas Jefferson
You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.
~ Jodi Picoult
Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?'Yes. Yes, of course.'Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG.
~ Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
When a president's popularity grows, the he is doing wrong things.
~ Debasish Mridha
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.
~ Mark Twain
More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.
~ Dick Morris
A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
~ Edwin Percy Whipple
The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.
~ Edgar Allan Poe