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Quotes About Wrong

Todo mundo tem uma opinião, não é mesmo? Talvez seja isso o que está errado com este país.
~ Chris Cleave
Isn't the greatest freedom in the world the freedom to be wrong? What hooks me on our story is our different readings of it. You think it's personal and private; my neurosis... I think our story is performative philosophy.
~ Chris Kraus
I thought about mistakes I had made in the past. I thought about when things went wrong. And I realized it was never an issue of intent, but of intensity. I was a good guy, recall.
~ Chris Lynch
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
That was the grand bargain with evil. No wrong ever got righted, any more than a hangman's rope was ever unknotted and used as a child's swing.
~ Christopher G. Moore
I found that the scales of life, honesty is the balance that should be maintained if there is to be a true civilisation at all. The one who cheats merely cheats himself, because he has lost the scale by which right and wrong are the guides for the uncertain; in his confusion, for the moment, he has no more confidence in himself and his ability to know right from wrong.
~ Henri Charpentier
For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The answer has been given me by life itself, in my knowledge of what is right and what is wrong. And that knowledge I did not arrive at in any way, it was given to me as to all men, given, because I could not have got it from anywhere. "Where could I have got it? By reason could I have arrived at knowing that I must love my neighbor and not oppress him?
~ Leo Tolstoy
the one unmistakable, incontestable manifestation of the Divinity is the law of right and wrong, which has come into the world by revelation, and which I feel in myself,
~ Leo Tolstoy
You want to know what it's like to be a demon? Imagine knowing, always and forever, that you are right, and that everyone and everything else is wrong.
~ Lev Grossman
Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved ones for their own good because we think we know better than them what is good and what is bad for them, what is right and what is wrong in their thinking.
~ Amos Oz
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
~ Michael Mandelbaum
Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money.
~ Hilary Rosen
I think privacy is valuable. You don't have to share everything, and it's healthy to occasionally hit the pause button and ask yourself if you're oversharing. But at the end of the day, if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to hide.
~ Ashton Kutcher
As exhausted as they may be, Republicans need to appeal to their sense of consciousness. To their principles. To what is right and wrong. To American values.
~ Ana Navarro
My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
~ Ed Miliband
Edward, Edward, he said with a patronising smile, there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
~ Jasper Fforde
It's important to collect evidence,' she said, 'even if disproved. That's how science works. Being proved wrong and then advancing. If I'm proved wrong a lot, I must be making headway, right?
~ Jasper Fforde
there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer, then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
~ Jasper Fforde
Outlaw. Rumrunner. Bootlegger. Blockader. I don't for one second forget that what we are doing is illegal, but legal and illegal and right and wrong don't always line up. Ask a former slave. Plenty of them still around. Sometimes the so-called law is nothing but the haves telling the have-nots to stay in their place.
~ Jeannette Walls
I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.
~ Josh Mandel
I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.
~ Avi Rubin
Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.
~ Francis Quarles