Sin Quotes

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I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy, — Aristotle
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone… — Edward Abbey
There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal. — Edward Abbey
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. — Edward Abbey
Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying… — Samuel Adams
O most glorious God ... Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb, and purge my… — George Washington
The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder… — Thomas Paine
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice. — Thomas Paine
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us much about manâ€™s… — Abraham Maslow
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. — Euripides
The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodnes is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human spectrum. Once you… — Helen Fielding
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several… — John von Neumann
We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered… — Mike Huckabee
All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity. — Wassily Kandinsky
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom… — Robert A. Heinlein
Every sin is the result of collaboration. — Stephen Crane
So whatâ€™s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the… — John Fante
Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life. — Richard Baxter

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