“Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
Quoted by M. Samuel, Prince of the Ghetto, 146.
“Lying is the greatest of all sins.”
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“To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
“If pride is a sin… moral pride is the greatest sin.”
John Irving book The Cider House Rules
Source: The Cider House Rules
“The greatest sin, after the initial sin, is its publication.”
Machado de Assis book 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.
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007) Italian film director and screenwriter
As quoted by the interviewer, from a preface to his screenplays
Encountering Directors interview (1969)
“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Source: Pearls of Wisdom
“T was Slander filled her mouth with lying words,
Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.”
Robert Pollok book The Course of Time
Book iv, line 725.
The Course of Time (published 1827)
“Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin.”
Pope Pius XII (1876–1958) 260th Pope of the Catholic Church
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