50 Quotes About Wrongdoing

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

How could he forgive her if he didn’t know she’d wronged him? How could she assuage her guilt without his forgiveness?

Just as a sense of wrongdoing had been integral to his [de Sade's] sexual pleasure—he preferred the anal position for moral as much as sensual reasons—the pleasure he took in immoralism was almost physical.

We do wrong because people do it, never realizing that we are the people.

Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,and bitterly wept as we bore him along.For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome, we all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong."The Cowboy's Lament

Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.

...Lance is the inevitable product of our celebrity-worshipping culture and the whole money-mad world of sports gone amok. This is the Golden Age of fraud, an era of general willingness to ignore and justify the wrongdoings of the rich and powerful, which makes every lie bigger and widens its destructive path.

The officer who shot and killed Philando Castile is found not guilty. Oh well, my people of African descent; might as well get our asses back on that hamster wheel as we routinely do. It is wholly apparent that what we're forced to endure is an unremitting drizzle of unnecessary heartache as our lives, in the nation we call home, don't matter.