"To claim that theft or adultery or lying……" — Simone Weil
"To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity."
More Adultery Quotes
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if… — Saint Augustine
- Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. — Charles Baudelaire
- I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects,… — Bono
- Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. — Edmund Burke
- Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion,… — Samuel Butler
- I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do… — Jimmy Carter
- Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment]. — Nora Roberts
- Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a… — W. Somerset Maugham
- Is it adultery if I'm committing it at one end of a guy and he's committing it at the other… — Dan Savage
- The first breathe of adultery is the freest. — John Updike
- The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and… — R.J. Rushdoony
- Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have… — St. Jerome