Affection Quote by Graham Greene

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring virgins into…

— Joseph Addison

Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are…

— Leonard Ravenhill

Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes the circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of…

— Charles Brockden Brown

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

— Max Lucado

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

— Elizabeth I

There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

— Jean Racine

“We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be “taught a lesson,” when we really want to punish. We were depressed and…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

— Theodor Adorno

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is…

— Sophocles

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like…

— Walter Scott