Famous quotes containing the word wrongs:
“Lars Porsena of Clusium
By the Nine Gods he swore
That the great house of Tarquin
Should suffer wrongs no more.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until—in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known—we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.”
—Judith Viorst (20th century)
“Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)