18 Metaphors for wrong

The great wrong is enslaving a man; all other wrongs are pigmies, compared with that.

He was shocked to think that George Warrington's jealousy and revenge should have rankled in the young fellow so long; but the wrong had been the Colonel's, and he was bound to pay the forfeit.

Wrong was her enemy; against this she wrestled, in whatever part of the globe it was to be found.

But the wrong onethere's the terror!

And all things weighed in custom's falsest scale; Opinion an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light.

Again and again he had told himself that the wrong he had suffered was an unpardonable offence, a thing not to be forgiven upon any ground whatever.

Wrong, though its title-deeds go back to the days of Sodom, is by nature a thing of yesterday,while the right, of which we became conscious but an hour ago, is more ancient than the stars, and of the essence of Heaven.

Lascivious and intemperate he is: The wrong of Daphne is a well-known tale.

It is true I live by throwing dust into men's eyes, and by making others think the wrong is the right: but mother Nature has given us all an insight into our own interests, and mine is quite clear enough to let me know when the true is better than the false.

The second is by denying that Slavery is opposed to the genius of Christianity, and that any moral wrongs are the necessary results of it.

Here all wrongs are crimes, because they are a violation of the precepts of the institution; and an offense against an individual is punished, not so much because it is a breach of his private rights, as because it affects the well-being of the whole masonic community.

" The subsequent correspondence, which I regret I have not room to insert, shows that the remonstrances of Whittier and Weld were effective in restraining, for the time being, the impatience of the sisters to urge in their public meetings what, however, they faithfully preached in privatetheir conviction that the wrongs of woman were the root of all oppression.

The wrongs which we have suffered from Mexico almost ever since she became an independent power and the patient endurance with which we have borne them are without a parallel in the history of modern civilized nations.

But since Wrong is the order of the day, it is requisite that the man who has built his house should also be able to protect it.

The wrongs against which we now array ourselves are no common wrongs.

Nay more, the knowledge that a wrong was donethat millions of Israelites died in torments, that a girl, or a thousand girls, died in the hospital for that one virginal thing, is an added pleasure which I could not afford to spare.

The wrongs of Poland were in those days a subject which moved men's hearts in England, and the midshipmen rejoiced at the thought of striking a blow in so good a cause.

Failure to prosecute for or punish heresy or witchcraft was at one time regarded at least as wrong as failure to punish or prosecute for theft or murder would now be.

18 Metaphors for  wrong