Wrongdoing Quotes

“If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage?”
― Molière, The Misanthrope

“Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence of justice is the redistribution of gains earned through the perpetration of injustice. If restitution is not made and reparations not instituted to compensate for prior injustices, those injustices are in effect rewarded. And the benefits such rewards conferred on the perpetrators of injustice will continue to "draw interest," to be reinvested, and to be passed on to their children, who will use their inherited advantages to continue to exploit the children of the victims of the injustices of their ancestors. Consequently, injustice and inequality will be maintained across the generations as will their deleterious social, economic, and political outcomes.”
― Amos Wilson

“I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.”
― Habeeb Akande

“The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It works out from both sides in the notion that two blacks make a white, and that when a wrong has been done, it should be paid for by an equivalent suffering. It seems to the Philistine majority a matter of course that this compensating suffering should be inflicted on the wrongdoer for the sake of its deterrent effect on other would-be wrongdoers; but a moment's reflection will shew that this utilitarian application corrupts the whole transaction. For example, the shedding of blood cannot be balanced by the shedding of guilty blood. Sacrificing a criminal to propitiate God for the murder of one of his righteous servants is like sacrificing a mangy sheep or an ox with the rinderpest: it calls down divine wrath instead of appeasing it. In doing it we offer God as a sacrifice the gratification of our own revenge and the protection of our own lives without cost to ourselves; and cost to ourselves is the essence of sacrifice and expiation.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Androcles and the Lion

“When you study the wrongs you have committed before you study the wrongs done to you, you have no choice but to label yourself inherently evil, and be forced to dissociate emotionally to avoid the horrible pain in this lie.”
― Daniel Mackler, Toward truth: A psychological guide to enlightenment

“Things you call wrong, describe your levels of acceptance and understanding..”
― Himmilicious

“We do wrong because people do it, never realizing that we are the people.”
― Raheel Farooq

“Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged.”
― Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants

“Ashes have no fear to burn in hell
In your heart's paradise angels dwell
Rib cage fastens all sins of the wrong
Your bones will sing you mortality’s song”
― Munia Khan

“The rat is
the mous-
tache
in
the
trache.

the wrong-
doer
in
the
soer.”
― J. Patrick Lewis, World Rat Day: Poems About Real Holidays You've Never Heard Of

“We do wrong. It's not bad but making mistakes if we don't realize it that's called bad or the baddest of all...what we learn from our mistakes that's important...”
― Debolina Bhawal

“But the lies which Odette ordinarily told were less innocent, and served to prevent discoveries which might have involved her in the most terrible difficulties with one or another of her friends. And so, when she lied, smitten with fear, feeling herself to be but feebly armed for her defence, unconfident of success, she was inclined to weep from sheer exhaustion, as children weep sometimes when they have not slept. She knew, also, that her lie, as a rule, was doing a serious injury to the man to whom she was telling it, and that she might find herself at his mercy if she told it badly. Therefore she felt at once humble and culpable in his presence. And when she had to tell an insignificant, social lie its hazardous associations, and the memories which it recalled, would leave her weak with a sense of exhaustion and penitent with a consciousness of wrongdoing.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out from where It belongs so They compete to eat it alive.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic

“Our mistakes would not wish for anything more, if we could just stop giving birth to them.”
― Munia Khan

“Making mistakes is a part of life, and it's okay--no one is perfect--to be human is to err. But for those who remain prideful through undoubted wrongfulness, should refrain from utterance. When knowingly mistaken, have the dignity to admit it.”
― Terry a O'Neal

“How could he forgive her if he didn’t know she’d wronged him? How could she assuage her guilt without his forgiveness?”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“We stand firm against the wrong not only to protect those who are being harmed but also to protect the person who is harming others, because eventually they, too, will suffer. So it's out of a sense of concern for their own long-term well-being that we stop their wrongdoing.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“The officer who shot and killed Philando Castile is found not guilty. Oh well, my people of African descent; might as well get our asses back on that hamster wheel as we routinely do. It is wholly apparent that what we're forced to endure is an unremitting drizzle of unnecessary heartache as our lives, in the nation we call home, don't matter.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“God does not have to get people back for wrongdoing; God will get them moving forward.”
― Johnnie Dent Jr.

“...Lance is the inevitable product of our celebrity-worshipping culture and the whole money-mad world of sports gone amok. This is the Golden Age of fraud, an era of general willingness to ignore and justify the wrongdoings of the rich and powerful, which makes every lie bigger and widens its destructive path.”
― Reed Albergotti , Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever

“Holy Spirit convicts us when we do something wrong, He guides us back to the right path”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Pride can make one a stronger person in the one sense, or so it is often believed, when based solely on the surface, but in the other, and much more frequently, a stronger devil. When pride is undeniably found out of an evil, it saves face by doubling down.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Don't allow being taught the wrong way for so long make you think it's right.”
― Carlos Wallace

“True forgiveness totally alters our perception. It sees the spiritual truth and loses sight of the alternatives. Our ego refuses to do this because its main food is remembering the wrongdoings against us even if they are entirely fabricated. To choose to see a different reality leaves the ego no room. It is the healing space. It is the beautiful space. It is the space of love and happiness.”
― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer