Quotes About Misapplied

T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317).

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;And vice sometime's by action dignified.

A Criminal is the case of surplus of human energy directed in the wrong direction.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.