Moral Failing Quotes

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

Less shame a greater fault would palliate.

Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.

Cowardice is the greatest sin.

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

I have been called a heretic, an apostate, an adulterer, a charlatan and an addict.

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

[Calvin Coolidge] ... is at bottom simply a cheap and trashy fellow, deficient in sense and almost devoid of any notion of honor—in brief, a dreadful little cad.

Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

I look upon pride as a sin.

There is no sin except stupidity.

I think we have a sin problem in the world. It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.

Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

The seed of every sin is in every heart.