Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
Anita Roddick
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
Edgar Watson Howe
The cure for all 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.
Lydia M. Child
No wrongs are righted; the rule of law in a shambles.
Christopher Dell
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.
Thomas Kyd
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.
Mother Jones
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.
Clarence Darrow
It is clear that a substantial section of the public believes what she did was undermining good governance, irrespective of the rights and wrongs of this particular case. This suggests the presidency will have to reformulate the guidelines in an appropriate manner.
Paul Graham
They just do not want anybody from organized labor to take a high-profile position - to have a pedestal to speak from about the wrongs that workers face across Virginia and across the country.
George Waksmunski
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Bible
One of the things with our movement that sometimes we forget because we're always talking about equality and rights and wrongs that are perpetuated upon us. We forget to talk about love and that's why we're lesbians, because we love other women.
Kathleen Debold
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more, taste the blessings of freedom.
Mary Todd Lincoln
But for the wrongs he did in the past, the people don't want to give him even the status of constitutional monarch. So, they are calling for a republican setup.
Krishna Khanal
Two wrongs not a right make, but three lefts do!
Karan Omidvari
That's why one of my concerns is that people like us that are trying to curb the problem of cats are the ones that may end up getting punished. I always say two wrongs don't make a right. Let's reward people who do what they're supposed to do.
Sandy Cramer
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Two wrongs will never make a right.
Marvin Anderson
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
Thomas S. Szasz
Our goals are very simple. We want to educate all of our members on the most recent illegal activities of our union. We want to 'right the wrongs' that have occurred and we want to make sure that this can never happen again.
Trent Klatt
If Croatia starts righting communist wrongs beyond international accords that have solved those problems, I have every reason to believe this will threaten the very functioning of the state.
Stjepan Mesic
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.
Philip Pullman
The tactics that the abductors are using -- showing her with a veil on, crying, asking for the release of the Iraqi prisoners -- is an unacceptable tactic. Even if the abductors believe the Iraqi women are being imprisoned unjustly, Islam does not condone two wrongs making a right.
Dawud Walid
Do two wrongs make a right?
Drake Johnstone
There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
It's an unnatural act for consenting (city and county officials) to work together. It's an ambitious plan, but what social wrongs in our society have been rectified without an ambitious plan?
Philip Mangano
What's right's right and what's wrong's wrong. I wanted to be just like him.
Garrett Ginglen
I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first - / Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance; / Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, / Spiritless outcast!
George Canning
I see a reawakening of elected and appointed officials to recognize the injustices of the past, ... We have a responsibility to correct those wrongs as much we can.
Tyrone Brooks
In every fiber of his being he lived out his belief that each and every one of us bears a responsibility to do whatever we can to right the wrongs of this world and to use our talents and our time to serve a larger purpose.
Joseph P. Kennedy
The belief in some being who can be the judge of all human matters is a very comfortable one - all wrongs will be righted and all rights will be rewarded.
Eli Khamarov
The king, if the illness did not intervene, would have made an official visit to the Western Cape as part of our efforts to make right the wrongs of the past, particularly apartheid legislation and the alienation of the Xhosa speaking communities.
Ebrahim Rasool
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