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“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.”
― Rumors
― Rumors
“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”
― The Black Cat
― The Black Cat
“Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.”
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“Your opponent's wrong doesn't automatically make you right. Most fights aren't about who's right; they are contention over degrees of wrongness.”
― Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
― Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,
and bitterly wept as we bore him along.
For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome,
we all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong."
The Cowboy's Lament”
― So Brave, Young, and Handsome
and bitterly wept as we bore him along.
For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome,
we all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong."
The Cowboy's Lament”
― So Brave, Young, and Handsome
“Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“Sometimes...
I don't tell people about their wrongdoings.
I tell them about the gain of doing otherwise.”
― Master of Stupidity
I don't tell people about their wrongdoings.
I tell them about the gain of doing otherwise.”
― Master of Stupidity
“On this planet . . . many things are 'the rule' which are thoroughly evil and pernicious.”
― The Message to the Planet
― The Message to the Planet
“No one is going to save the world by hating other people. That’s not to say we shouldn’t be angry about all the wrongdoing. Anger, however, is not the same as hate, though people often equate the two. Anger can be channeled into positive action, as a force for good. When our hearts are in the right place, we are working for the benefit of all humanity.”
― The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis
― The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis
“There's a lot of wrong done in the world, everybody commits it, but some wrong comes from love and need and some comes from hate and jealousy. There's a difference between those two kinds of wrongs that a lot of people can't see. Kit, in Stealing ”
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“It is hard to locate the right memories for a beginning: to decide which ones are relevant to the overall picture. We always take ourselves back to the start to try and find out why things happened; to try and force some blame into some day or some month or into some half-shaded memory.”
― Thin
― Thin
“Just as a sense of wrongdoing had been integral to his [de Sade's] sexual pleasure—he preferred the anal position for moral as much as sensual reasons—the pleasure he took in immoralism was almost physical.”
― De Sade: A Critical Biography
― De Sade: A Critical Biography
“People who eventually accept something terrible done to them without seeking payback are just lazy.”
― In Limbo
― In Limbo
“Make no mistake, you will be punish for your sins. Therefore, heed to the warnings of the prophets, turn from wrongdoings.”
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“The eagles of yesteryear’s wrongdoings hunt happily and mercilessly as we try to run far away.”
― Fearless and Free: How One Man Changed my Life ǀ Self-help story on life, love and making a fresh start
― Fearless and Free: How One Man Changed my Life ǀ Self-help story on life, love and making a fresh start
“Regardless of whether you admit it or not, if you have done wrong then you have done wrong. No excuse, no lie, no alibi, no rationalization or justification will change it. And no power under Heaven can conceal it from the all-seeing eyes of God.”
― Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
― Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
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