Browsing Topic Best Wrongdoing Quotes

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.

Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

Diana knew it wouldn’t be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.

I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they did the wrong thing. They’re a dying institution in many parts of the world because they refuse to ordain women or married people. And now they’re a dying institution because some of their members did enormous harm to young people and instead of responding aggressively with humility, and with love, and with the confession of wrongdoing, they tried to spin it as though they were a political party, and that’s just deplorable.

No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that. But there is a competing interest, and that is the ability of prosecutors to get information that may be absolutely essential to assist them in the investigation of illegal wrongdoing. And so you’ve got these two competing interests. I believe that the current policy at the Department of Justice reflects a careful balancing of those interests.

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

When you’re placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now. Yes, there is tension between the two of them.

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.

Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

There are just too many opportunities – and an increasing number of them – to hide systemic, institutional wrongdoing behind legal veils, legal theories, and arbitrary exemptions. I hope that we can start to chip away at this, but it sure looks like society is still sliding in the opposite direction.

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

It’s not wrong to be upset. It’s not wrong to cry. It’s not wrong to want attention. It’s not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.

To the wrongs that need resistance,To the right that needs assistance,To the future in the distance,Give yourselves.

History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.

I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of everything, even the worst… I believe that even our mistakes and wrongdoing are not fruitless.

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.

True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.

My case clearly demonstrates the need for comprehensive whistleblower protection act reform. If we had had a real process in place, and reports of wrongdoing could be taken to real, independent arbiters rather than captured officials, I might not have had to sacrifice so much to do what at this point even the President seems to agree needed to be done.

America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America’s image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.