Wrongful Quotes

#1. As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment - setting a powerful example of redemption and grace for us all.

George H. W. Bush

#2. In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. in a democratic society, a wrongful practice persists only when most people don't perceive it to be unjust.

Peter Thiel

#4. Eighty percent of global warming is the result of man's wrongful use of the resources of the planet and the dumping of millions upon millions of tons of nuclear and other waste in the world, creating great toxic areas all over our skies, our oceans, our rivers, and the earth.

Benjamin Creme

#5. And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

John Grisham

#6. We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

Bryan Stevenson

#7. For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

Plato

#8. What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.

Thomas Mann

#10. Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

John Grisham

#11. In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement.

Manisha Sinha

#12. Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

Peter Benenson

#13. And though you know it's wrongful,
there is someone else you long for.

Lang Leav

#14. The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.

Geoff Mulgan

#15. The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.

Glenn Greenwald

#16. It finally happened - a lawsuit for wrongful doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Robert Breault

#17. Before you condemn someone else for a wrongful act, check your behavior and see if you too, have committed an act similar or even worse than the act that person has done. Then you won't be in a position to judge.

Ellen J. Barrier

#18. Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated

George Gascon

#19. John 8:44 says Satan is a liar and the father of lies. He captures and conquers men's lives through his convincing lies, often nullifying good intentions with wrongful actions that seemed manly in the moment but in the end lacked the balancing power of clarity.

James MacDonald

#20. America was born out of despair & we'll all go through it in our lifetime. It's what we do with it that will help determine our greatness!

Timothy Pina

#21. Most Americans don't know about environmental problems, because we have in our country a negligent and indolent press. The biggest lie that the right wing holds in our country is that there is such a thing as a liberal media. Americans are getting their news from the right-wing media.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#22. This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent.

Antonin Scalia

#23. Republicans are 'bad people who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads.'

Rahm Emanuel

#24. Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

Tom Shadyac

#25. History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#26. It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.

Nancy Gibbs

#27. I love you. And I don't care if you don't love me, because you will. Besides, you need me, whether you know it or not.

Julie Ann Walker

#28. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.

Emily Giffin

#29. There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

Jonas Mekas

#30. The minute you think you have gotten on God's good side by your own behavior, you are naturally prone to demonize those who haven't.

Jefferson Bethke

#31. Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

William Ralph Inge

#32. The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

Anais Nin