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| Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs | | Seneca | |
| Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. | | W. H. Auden | |
| Pleasure is the bait of sin | | Plato | |
| Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals | | Sir John Vanbrugh | |
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| Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality | | Kahlil Gibran | |
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| Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid). | | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastat | | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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| The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. | | Pearl Bailey | |
| The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. | | Victor Hugo | |
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| The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
