[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

Frank Harris

Stichwörter: civilization punishment temptation homosexuality sins



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The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.


From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.

Frederick Lewis Donaldson

Stichwörter: science money politics principle happiness knowledge morality wealth humanity work pleasure conscience sin character worship misattributed-to-gandhi sacrifice sins commerce



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I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

Jim Carroll

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How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Stichwörter: poetry sinners sins confessor russian



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All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

RuPaul

Stichwörter: humor money truth past present thought sins



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What sorts of sin?"

Any sort. When other people commit them, you are startled, but when you commit them yourself, they seem absolutely natural.

Elspeth Huxley

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We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

Jennifer Donnelly

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We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.

Anna Godbersen

Stichwörter: love guilt regrets sins



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If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was 'free will' that made them doable. This is true, unless God has predestined human to do and to have sins.

Toba Beta

Stichwörter: life truth free-will god sins clarity-of-perception



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Sure I got sins. Ever'body got sins. A sin is somepin you ain't sure about. Them people that's sure about ever'thing an' ain't got no sin-- well, with that kind a son-of-a-bitch, if I was God I'd kick their ass right outa heaven! I couldn' stand 'em!

John Steinbeck

Stichwörter: sins



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