Quotes About Rectification

My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.

Everything is as it's supposed to be at that moment. But change is the rule, the guiding principle. All is flux. All is refinement, correction, rectification. And that, my love, is the reason for everything. Change. And its potential for improvement." She almost groaned out loud. Another

CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

I think God's justice is making wrongs right.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.

nous avons toujours regretté que les habitudes de l'époque actuelle ne nous aient pas permis de faire paraître nos ouvrages sous le couvert du plus strict anonymat, ce qui eût tout au moins évité à certains d'écrire beaucoup de sottises, et à nous-même d'avoir trop souvent la peine de les relever et de les rectifier. (Études Traditionnelles, juillet-août 1950, Métaphysique et dialectique, note 4)

Rectification Campaign, that Mao engineered in Yenan and that was designed both to indoctrinate the thousands who had flocked to Yenan and to eradicate his opponents inside the party. The long-range effect of this famous meeting was to reduce the magnificent art and culture of China, historically one of the greatest contributions to global culture ever made, to standardized, officially approved propaganda.

I accept that 'Ee Varsham Sakshiga' had some flaws, which could have been rectified during post-production.

Errors once discovered are more than half amended

Don't worry about why it went wrong. Just damn well put it right.

should be clear by now that this making-right, or rectification, is not a process. It is already true, in Christ; but it is true eschatologically, from the perspective of the End. The now–not yet dynamic is operative here, as always.

The imagery of rescue and victory places the themes of reconciliation and forgiveness into another context altogether, where they are brought in under the heading of God acting to make right what has been wrong (rectification). Then, and only then, can the whole complex of ideas and images be located where it belongs, on the battlefield of Christ against the Powers. This is the overarching panorama against which to place the imagery of the Great Assize, or Last Judgment.

the word translated "justice" and "righteousness" is the same word in Hebrew and in Greek. The root of the word becomes, in both Testaments, both a noun and a verb, so that "justice" or "judgment" is the same thing as "righteousness" or "rectification" (making right).

that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser

Life has a way of evening out the injustices it has created.

When you decide to learn about your faults so that they can be rectified, you open a line of communication with the source of all revelatory thought. Maybe that's the same thing as consulting your conscience. Maybe that's the same thing, in some manner, as a discussion with God.

However, Christianity has come to present us a new idea, all the more powerful in that it rests on a universal idea as old as the world, and that we needed to be rectified and sanctioned by revelation. So when the guilty ask us it is why the innocent suffer in his world, we are not lacking in responses, as you have seen, but we can choose one that is more direct and perhaps more convincing than all the others. We can reply: Innocence suffers for you, if you wish it.

leave such mistakes for time to set right. And when the truth comes in such a case it comes to some purpose.

You correct an error by bringing truth to it.

However, the process of legitimation through rectification is a two-edged sword. It must go far enough to demonstrate that the system is self-cleansing, but not so far as to destabilize the executive power.

I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.

Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion.

If you brought harm, no matter the reason, you had to set it right as best you could.