ethical transgression Quotes

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.

In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

There are no small sins against a great God

Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of morally or politically correct sexual behavior will be subverted by nature's daemonic law.

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.