Victor Hugo Quotes

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

There is no sin but ignorance.

I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.

Our instinct has outrun our theory in this matter; for while we still insist upon free will and sin, we make allowance for individuals who have gone wrong, on the very ground of provocation, of temptation, of bad education, of infirm character.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.

Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.