Unpardonable Sin

Famous quotes containing the words unpardonable sin, unpardonable and/or sin:

“To have a place full of delights and nothing but delights, which one does not have to explain and defend to people who have ideas unsympathetic to one, it is to economize the forces which keep one from ending like the wisteria, from committing the unpardonable sin of doing things with difficulty.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)

“The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

“Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)