Top 379 Wrongs Quotes & Sayings

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

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.

Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.

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.

...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.

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

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.

My rights, my wrongs, I write ‘til I’m right with God.

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.

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.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.

Supporters of the war are constantly asking those who oppose it: Why don't you deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side? The answer, so far as I am concerned, is that I do deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side. But I am responsible for the wrongs and atrocities committed by our side. And I am no longer able to participate in the assumption that atrocities committed by remote control are less objectionable than those committed at arm's length. I am most concerned with American obstacles to peace because I am an American.

Love forgets wrongs so that there is hope for the future.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

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.

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.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

Life is once so do right neglect wrongs.

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.

A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is to survive, a just society must be strong and resolute enough to deal swiftly and relentlessly with those who would mistake its good will for weakness.

Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

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?

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

He who wrongs one threatens many.

Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy

So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.

I think God's justice is making wrongs right.

To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them.

Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

You have to fight harder, dig deeper, and prove all the doubters wrongs.

He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.

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.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.

The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.

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.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

We can never right the wrongs of the past.

Legal aid is central to righting wrongs and rectifying injustice.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

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.

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.