“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
Source: Les Misérables
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Victor Hugo 308
French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885Related quotes
“You may not hold me guilty of sins committed in dreams.”
Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 8 (p. 25)
Also quoted in Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future: tributes and speeches (2003), edited by Kader Asmal & David Chidester. Jonathan Ball, p. 332
1990s, Speech at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference (1992)
Context: Yes! We affirm it and we shall proclaim it from the mountaintops, that all people – be they black or white, be they brown or yellow, be they rich or poor, be they wise or fools, are created in the image of the Creator and are his children! Those who dare to cast out from the human family people of a darker hue with their racism! Those who exclude from the sight of God's grace, people who profess another faith with their religious intolerance! Those who wish to keep their fellow countrymen away from God's bounty with forced removals! Those who have driven away from the altar of God people whom He has chosen to make different, commit an ugly sin! The sin called Apartheid.
2008, Inter-religious Meeting (17 July 2008)
“He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012)
“No one has committed so much sin in his life that he deserves to die twice.”
Original: (pt) Ninguém na vida teve tantos pecados que mereça morrer duas vezes.
Source: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), p. 362
“He who, when he may, forbids not sin, commands it.”
Qui non vetat peccare cum possit, iubet.
Troades (The Trojan Women), line 291 (Agamemnon)
Alternate translation: He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it. (translator unknown).
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