(878 quotes found)
“There is no such thing as sin. There is only life and anti-life.”
D.H. Lawrence
“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid).”
Robert A. Heinlein
“They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.”
Oscar Wilde
“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”
Jesus Christ
“Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.”
Igor Stravinsky
“Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad”
Baruch Spinoza
“There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.”
G. K. Chesterton
“The deepest sin of the human mind is to believe things without evidence”
Thomas Henry Huxley