Wrongful Actions Quotes

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

Evil man make me kill you.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

For violence or fraud can create no right.

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.

Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced.

Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.

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.