Quotes About Wrong

The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

But Benedict wished to suffer the world's wrongs rather than its praises, and to be worn out by labors for God rather than flattered by worldly praise. So he quietly slipped away...

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

The public, which has been wrong before and is wrong now, can accept only demons and angels on the stage

To be immoral, you must first subscribe to some conventional morality.... You cannot do wrong until you have first done right.

In general, the practice of the Way involves blocking off errors, stopping them before they happen. It does not value self-approval, it values inability to do wrong.

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be.' Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.

I have a fascination with the nasty things people do to each other and the way relationships go wrong, and how there can be this very dark underbelly to seemingly normal, mundane domestic life. They're the stories in the newspapers I always find interesting. That's not a very nice thing to admit to, is it?

Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance.

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there's no point in anything.

It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.

I'd never really had arguments like this before, arguments I couldn't understand properly, arguments where both sides were right and wrong all at the same time.

honey, ain't never been wrong yet you better get back to the city cause you one of them technical niggers and you'll have problems here