Top 55 Wrongs Quotes

I was in New York in 2014. It was still cold outside. I was sitting there working on ‘Exchange’ and ‘Right My Wrongs’ at the time, and a fan had commented on one of my songs called ‘Let Em’ Know’ that was already on my SoundCloud and said, ‘trapsoul movement.’

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure!

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to ‘right’ these ‘wrongs.’

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

I just think there is a right way to do things, and I don’t think two wrongs make a right.

It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe.

We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

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.

Wrong fails because it is wrong. The wrongs, the untruths, are inconsistent with each other. They clash against each other and confute each other. They neutralize each other and are lost.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

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

The righting of historic wrongs has chimed with something fundamental in me since I was a young reader. I love the forensic skills, the psychological insights, and the sheer bloody-mindedness of various detectives – professional or accidental – inching toward the truth of a long-buried secret.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Women face so much at various levels – it can be as simple as the common belief that a woman is incapable of doing certain things or the fact that even if you do something wrong to her, she won’t speak up for fear of embarrassment… The time is here that we all should fight against such wrongs.

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.

My mother always taught me that two wrongs don’t make a right. We shouldn’t bail out Wall Street. We shouldn’t bail out Detroit. It will cost the economy more than the cost of the bailout which is more than the politicians think. We’ll run into the hundred of millions to prop these companies up.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.

My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, ‘If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn’t be the problems that there are.’ In other words, ‘treat people the way you want to be treated.’ If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won’t make a right.

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.

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.

Return to your friends and tell them that we came here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, and determined to avenge our own wrongs and set our country free. Let your masters come and attack us: we are ready to meet them beard to beard.

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

Legal aid is central to righting wrongs and rectifying injustice.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I’m trying to rectify my wrongs.

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.

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.

It is important to change, acknowledge, and accept our mistakes. It’s important that we – this goes even for me – introspect and see the wrongs we have done. It’s time we all grew up.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

He was living proof that this country can improve. That, as a nation, we can peacefully confront historic wrongs and right them. John Lewis may be gone but his message and his legacy remains.

As a dad I’m emotionally dedicated but I’m not ‘figuring out their life plans’. But of course as I’m telling them about the rights of wrongs I’m thinking back to what I was like at their age.

In life, we have two segments: arts and science. We need science to make our lives easier. But what do we live for? We enjoy life through arts. So it’s an artistes duty to question the wrongs happening in the society.

The trouble with righting some wrongs is that it makes the remaining ones seem even more unbearable.

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.

I always like to remind myself that the most honorable people of all are not those who never make mistakes, but those who admit to them when they do and then move on and do their best to right the wrongs they have made.

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.

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

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

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.

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.

I was a cheap criminal; I did many, many wrongs. I admit that. Of course, if I could tell each person I’m sorry, I would.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

Never say never. When love happens, it just happens. The industry is full of nice people, and there are no rights and wrongs.

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.

For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.