A Quote by George R. R. Martin
You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.
Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.
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.
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
...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.
He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.
If two wrongs don't make a right, then what do three wrongs make? What about four?
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.
Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.
Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.
He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.
A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect--a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death.
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