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Quotations regarding 'Wrongs'

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It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
Barbara Amiel, British Journalist (1940-  )
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, Italian Theologian
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist (1816-1855)
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, British Poet (1788-1824)
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
Carrie Chapman Catt, American Activist (1859-  )
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, American Activist
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, American Lawyer (1857-1938)
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
Epictetus, Greek Philosopher
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, American Musician (1942-1995)
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, -
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, American Activist (1943-  )
Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.
Edgar Watson Howe, American Editor (1853-1937)
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
Edward W. Howe, -
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, German Celebrity (1893-1943)
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, British Politician (1930-  )
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, American President (1908-1973)
I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
Mary Harris Jones, American Activist (1837-1930)
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, American Activist (1837-1930)
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, German Philosopher (1921-1980)
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, -
 
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