A Quote by Emma Goldman

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Emma Goldman

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Emma Goldman
Russian - Activist
June 27, 1869 - May 14, 1940

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

Rebecca West

'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.

Brigham Young

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

Dorothy L. Sayers

...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

Galen Starr Ross

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

Theodore Roosevelt

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Ambrose Bierce

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

Germaine Greer

there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

Truman Capote

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Thomas Huxley

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

Rae Foley

I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.

Elbert Hubbard

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

Saint Basil

I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank.