Misdeeds Quotes - Page 3

• The fear of death which is imprinted in men is at the same time a great expedient Heaven employs to hinder them from many misdeeds: many things are left undone for fear of imperiling one's life or health.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Heaven, Fear Of Death

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• It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Defeated, Crime

  Source: www.madre.org

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• ...Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.

  George Henry Boker

  Lovers, Ghost, Spots

  George Henry Boker (1857). “Plays and poems”, p.462

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• I like to think there's still right and wrong. We blur that a lot. When we celebrate misdeeds instead of portraying them as missteps, we've lost our way a little bit.

  Mark Schwahn

  Thinking, Littles, Way

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• The script was classic Joe Eszterhas, intelligent, steamy and provocative. At one time, Eszterhas was Hollywood's highest paid writer, illiterate rock and roll bad boy whose 14 films glorified sex, drugsa nd cigarettes. Eszterhas also fought publicly with producers and politicians. In 1995 he argued that some of the misdeeds of the Nixon, Reagan and Bush administrations were more obscene than anything in an "R" rated movie.

  David Shuster

  Sex, Boys, Intelligent

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as God's chosen people is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Stupid, Believe, Racism

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• Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Facts, Language

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1924). “Collected works”

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• And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

  Khalil Gibran

  Judgement, Greater, Remorse

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.

  Herbert Spencer

  Echoes, Soul, Hardship

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.20, VM eBooks

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