„Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin.“
Radio Message of His Holiness Pius XII to Participants in the National Catechetical Congress of the United States in Boston https://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/speeches/1946/documents/hf_p-xii_spe_19461026_congresso-catechistico-naz.html, from Castel Gandolfo on Saturday, 26 October 1946
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„If pride is a sin… moral pride is the greatest sin.“
— John Irving, kniha The Cider House Rules
Zdroj: The Cider House Rules
„The greatest sin, after the initial sin, is its publication.“
— Machado de Assis, kniha Quincas Borba
O maior pecado, depois do pecado, é a publicação do pecado.
Quincas Borba (1891) ch. 32; Clotilde Wilson (trans.) Philosopher or Dog? (New York: Noonday Press, 1954) p. 41.
— Miguel de Unamuno 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864 - 1936
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), IV : The Essence of Catholicism
Kontext: The real sin — perhaps it is a sin against the Holy Ghost for which there is no remission — is the sin of heresy, the sin of thinking for oneself. The saying has been heard before now, here in Spain, that to be a liberal — that is, a heretic — is worse than being an assassin, a thief, or an adulterer. The gravest sin is not to obey the Church, whose infallibility protects us from reason.
— Mohammad Mosaddegh Prime Minister of Iran 1882 - 1967
Defending himself against a treason charge, on 19 December, 1953
— Margaret Sanger American birth control activist, educator and nurse 1879 - 1966
The Mike Wallace Interview (ABC) http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/sanger_margaret_t.html,
Posed question: "Do you believe in sin — When I say "believe" I don't mean believe in committing sin, do you believe there is such a thing as a sin
„Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth living.“
Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori
et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.
— Juvenal, kniha Satires
VIII, line 83.
Satires, Satire VIII
— Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855
Zdroj: The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
„Lying is the greatest of all sins.“
— Alfred Nobel Swedish chemist, innovator, and armaments manufacturer 1833 - 1896
„Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.“
— Isaac Leib Peretz Yiddish language author and playwright 1852 - 1915
Quoted by M. Samuel, Prince of the Ghetto, 146.
— Robert Oppenheimer American theoretical physicist and professor of physics 1904 - 1967
Physics in the Contemporary World, Arthur D. Little Memorial Lecture at M.I.T. (25 November 1947)
Kontext: Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons, as they were in fact used, dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
— Dwight L. Moody American evangelist and publisher 1837 - 1899
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 607.
„The greatest sin is to think yourself weak“
— Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902
Zdroj: Pearls of Wisdom
„Lord Peter Wimsey: The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.“
— Dorothy L. Sayers, kniha Gaudy Night
Gaudy Night (1936)
— Muhammad Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam 570 - 632
Biharul Anwar, Volume 96, Page 248
Shi'ite Hadith
„To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.“
— Elie Wiesel writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor 1928 - 2016
„All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.“
— Cesare Pavese Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908 - 1950
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
— Richard Wurmbrand Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent 1909 - 2001
Zdroj: Tortured For Christ (1967), p. 75.
