Misdeeds Quotes
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To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.
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More Misdeeds Quotes
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.
— Mahatma Gandhi, "An Autobiography OR The story of my experiments with truth", Chapter 27, Recruiting Campaign, from a leaflet urging Indians to serve with the British Army in World War II. [5]
"You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too."
anne brontë— Mrs. Maxwell to Helen (Ch. XX : Persistence)
If one permits an infidel to continue in his role as a corrupter of the earth, the infidel's moral suffering will be all the worse. If one kills the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.
ruhollah khomeini— Speech on the day of Mohammed's birth (1984)
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears;Oh life, no life, but lively form of death;Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs,Confused and filled with murder and misdeeds.
thomas kyd— Act III, sc. ii.
A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.
friedrich nietzsche— Essay 3, Aphorism 16.
The Raven's house is built with reeds, Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the hollow tree; And the Raven himself, telling his beads In penance for his past misdeeds, Upon the top I see.
— Thomas D'Arcy McGee, The Penitent Raven; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 656.
Put the blame on the gray wolf; he will be responsible for all misdeeds done by you or someone else.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
