Source: Clockwork Prince
Defending himself against a treason charge, on 19 December, 1953
“The greatest sin, after the initial sin, is its publication.”
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.
"Everybody says it. The church, the government. It's against Nature, to give up, you've got to keep moving. That's the thing about you. You're not moving. You don't want to be here, selling old man Springer's jalopies. You want to be out there, learning something." He gestures toward the west. "How to hang glide, or run a computer, or whatever."
Rabbit is Rich (1981)
“Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.”
Quoted by M. Samuel, Prince of the Ghetto, 146.
“Lying is the greatest of all sins.”
“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom
“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
“To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.”
