Euripides
Playwright
"If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue."
Wrongdoing quotes
Wrongdoing
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing."
George Eliot
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
"We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us."
Myrtle Reed
Author
"Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else."
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