Moral Wrongdoing Quotes

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

Evil is whatever distracts.

No one does wrong voluntarily.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

The eight men who are survivors of the syphilis study at Tuskegee are a living link to a time not so very long ago that many Americans would prefer not to remember, but we dare not forget. It was a time when our nation failed to live up to its ideals, when our nation broke the trust with our people that is the very foundation of our democracy. It is not only in remembering that shameful past that we can make amends and repair our nation, but it is in remembering that past that we can build a better present and a better future. And without remembering it, we cannot make amends and we cannot go forward…. The United States government did something that was wrong—deeply, profoundly, morally wrong. It was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

… crimes which no law can claim to legitimize.

It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

I'm not satisfied with the term 'evil.' We've inherited this word... and we use it to express our abhorrence when people do awful things, usually acts of cruelty, but I don't think it's anything more than another word for doing something bad.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

Injustice can never be stood for.

A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.

Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

We all have done something unethical.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

That's one of the things I find really bad, is when people not only do injuries to others, but then lie about the others to justify it. It's not bad enough just being bad to someone, but then lying about it.