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#wrongdoing

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


Anna Godbersen


#wrongdoing #conscience

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.


Aldous Huxley


#brooding #guilt #morality #remorse #repentance

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


Anna Godbersen


#wrongdoing #guilt

Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?


Edgar Allan Poe


#wrongdoing #judgement

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.


Ken Starr


#duty #evidence #government #lawyers #wrongdoing

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?


Bell Hooks


#always #believe #capacity #compassion #enough

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?


Linda Tripp


#commit #conspiring #crime #criminal #document

I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.


Habeeb Akande


#forgiveness #god #god-consciousness #mindful-of-god #piety

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


Leif Enger


#forgiveness #wrongdoing #forgiveness

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.


Criss Jami


#conceal #equality #evil #expose #good






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