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Tag Name "Wrongs" (184)

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It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
James Russell Lowell
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I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
Anita Roddick
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers many take them more seriously than is right.
Sallust
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Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.
Walt Whitman
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
Alexander Pope
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I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, Those undreamt accidents that have made me Seeing that Fame has perished this long while, Being but a part of ancient ceremony Notorious, till all my priceless things Are but a post the passing dogs defile.
William Butler Yeats
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And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.
Albert Ellis
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He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger.
William Shakespeare
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I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy.
Alan Dershowitz
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Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?
William Shakespeare
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'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.
Scott Turow
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This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.
Winston Churchill
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...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.
Abraham Lincoln
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I really wished he hadn't made me hate to read the Bible. Having it shoved down my throat all my life had made me bitter toward reading it. I believed it, but my dad had used it to his benefit too many times and ignored the parts in there that would point out his wrongs. Like judging Beau without even knowing him. That was in the Bible too.
Abbi Glines
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If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.
Oliver Herford
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If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
Barbara Jordan
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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
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As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.
Kevin Rudd
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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
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And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.
Homer
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When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.
Dalai Lama
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?
Andrew Clements
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To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
William Wordsworth
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