Quotes and Sayings about Wrongs
"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Imperfection, Patience, Sin, Wrongs)
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Life, Wrongs)
"I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail."
- Lord Byron
(Related: Men, Wrongs)
"To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves."
- Carrie Chapman Catt
(Related: Future, Needs, Right, Wrongs)
"The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."
- Lydia M. Child
(Related: Life, Lie, Cure, Humanity, Vitality, Word, Wrongs)
"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever."
- Clarence Darrow
(Related: Man, Will, World, Wrongs)
"If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother."
- Epictetus
(Related: Brother, Wrong, Wrongs)
"If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously."
- Jerry Garcia
(Related: Society, Quality, Character, Effort, Wrongs)
"Men have two ways of righting their wrongs, by force and by the ballot. Both are denied to women, one by nature, the other by man."
- Ida A. Harper
(Related: Men, Nature, Women, Force, Man, Wrongs)
"But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do."
- Jim Hightower
(Related: Mother, Right, Wrongs)
"Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy."
- Edgar Watson Howe
(Related: Wrongs)
"Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Men, Women, Idea, Rights, Wrongs)
"As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs."
- Kurt Huber
(Related: Destiny, Duty, Obvious, Right, Wrongs)
"There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War."
- Douglas Hurd
(Related: War, Agreement, First, Rights, Today, World, World war, Wrongs)
"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Benefits, Cause, Legislation, Light, Will, Wrongs)
"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."
- Mary Harris Jones
(Related: Protection, Wrongs)
"I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do."
- Mother Jones
(Related: Career, Labor, Wrongs)
"Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life."
- Walter Kaufmann
(Related: Life, Hinduism, Fate, Punishment, Wrongs)
"The belief in some being who can be the judge of all human matters is a very comfortable one - all wrongs will be righted and all rights will be rewarded."
- Eli Khamarov
(Related: Belief, Being, Rights, Will, Wrongs)
"Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs."
- Thomas Kyd
(Related: Death, Life, Eyes, Public, Tears, World, Wrongs)
"The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves."
- John L. Lewis
(Related: Corporate, Rights, Nation, Treatment, Waiting, Workers, Wrongs)
"For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs."
- Bill McCartney
(Related: Christian, Church, Brothers, Culture, Past, Sisters, Traditions, Wrongs, Years)
"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."
- P. J. O'Rourke
(Related: Politics, God, Foreigners, Rights, Infinite, Mercy, Wrongs)
"I think God's justice is making wrongs right."
- Joel Osteen
(Related: God, Justice, Right, Wrongs)
"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Right, Wrongs)
"On wrongs swift vengeance waits."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Vengeance, Wrongs)
"We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever."
- Philip Pullman
(Related: Time, Books, Rights, Silence, Wrongs)
"It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war."
- Elihu Root
(Related: War, Peace, People, Enthusiasm, Resentment, Wrongs)
"Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation."
- Charles Ruff
(Related: Cause, Danger, Grave, Nation, Office, Wrongs)
"I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs."
- Morley Safer
(Related: Business, Right, Wrongs)
"No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right."
- Sallust
(Related: Man, Right, Wrongs)
"Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain."
- Anna Seward
(Related: Soul, Blessings, Fate, Wrongs)
"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."
- Joseph Smith, Jr.
(Related: Men, Nature, Fault, Human nature, Wrong, Wrongs)
"It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(Related: Class, Wrongs)
"The remedy for wrongs is to forget them."
- Publilius Syrus
(Related: Forget, Wrongs)
"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."
- Thomas Szasz
(Related: Right, Wrongs)
"Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs."
- William Weld
(Related: Government, Wrongs)