{"quotes":[{"text":"You know what politique is? It is the French word for a lie. Kdoub! Politique! When you hear the French say: our politique, you know they mean: our lies. And when you hear the Moslems, the Friends of Independence, say: our politique, you know they mean: our lies. All lies are sins. And so, which displeases Allah more, a lie told by a Nazarene, who doesn’t know the true faith from the false, or a lie told by a Moslem, who does?","author":"Paul Bowles","tags":["colonialism","french","french-colonialism","french-morocco","lies","morocco","moslem","nazarene","politics","politique","sins","truth"],"id":1106,"author_id":"Paul+Bowles"},{"text":"Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '. Self pity will destroy relationships, it'll destroy anything that's good, it will fulfill all the prophecies it makes and leave only itself. And it's so simple to imagine that one is hard done by, and that things are unfair, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only one had had a chance at this, only one had had a chance at that, things would have gone better, you would be happier if only this, that one is unlucky. All those things. And some of them may well even be true. But, to pity oneself as a result of them is to do oneself an enormous disservice.I think it's one of things we find unattractive about the american culture, a culture which I find mostly, extremely attractive, and I like americans and I love being in america. But, just occasionally there will be some example of the absolutely ravening self pity that they are capable of, and you see it in their talk shows. It's an appalling spectacle, and it's so self destructive. I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying 'How To Be Happy by Stephen Fry : Guaranteed success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say - ' Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself - And you will be happy '. Use the rest of the book to write down your interesting thoughts and drawings, and that's what the book would be, and it would be true. And it sounds like 'Oh that's so simple', because it's not simple to stop feeling sorry for yourself, it's bloody hard. Because we do feel sorry for ourselves, it's what Genesis is all about.","author":"Stephen Fry","tags":["americans","depression","depression-humor","happiness","marriage-advice","morality","narcissism","oscar-wilde","pride","relationships","self-help","self-improvement","self-pity","sin","sins","the-key-to-happiness","vice"],"id":5960,"author_id":"Stephen+Fry"},{"text":"We all have sinned so far in our lives and might continue too but still we all love talking about others sins, Elaborating, exaggerating, laughing, commenting, cursing... And we all enjoy it hahaha.","author":"honeya","tags":["bitching","commenting","comments","cursing","double-standard","friends","god","laughing","people","sin","sinned","sinner","sins","society","wise-words"],"id":7786,"author_id":"honeya"},{"text":"They said we are different. But I Said we are same because we all are busy to blaming others for our sins!","author":"sid","tags":["experience","facts","facts-of-life","reality","sins"],"id":8287,"author_id":"sid"},{"text":"I've heard many say 'I'll sell my soul to the Devil'in hopes of gaining money, power or fame.Why do they think that they have that much worth over any other person?And the Devil if there is one wouldn't simply wait for them to condemn themselves on their own.","author":"Stanley Victor Paskavich","tags":["ity","devil","fame","power","sins","souls"],"id":19322,"author_id":"Stanley+Victor+Paskavich"},{"text":"One cannot judge a man for the sins of his family.","author":"Cassandra Clare","tags":["gideon-lightwood","judgement","sins","sophie","tessa-gray"],"id":24284,"author_id":"Cassandra+Clare"},{"text":"Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.","author":"Kin Hubbard","tags":["punished","sins","them "],"id":31491,"author_id":"Kin+Hubbard"},{"text":"If all of our sins, bad habits, and poor choices were permanently inked into our skin like tattoos, we would all dress quite modestly.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["bad-habits","embarrassment","guilt","poor-choices","regret","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","shame","sins"],"id":32851,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Unlike the world that points out your flaws to ridicule you, when GOD point out your flaws, it's because He want to walk you out of it.","author":"TemitOpe Ibrahim","tags":["flaws","god","healing","help","inspirational","intention","motivational","ridicule","shortcomings","sins","strength","world"],"id":33783,"author_id":"TemitOpe+Ibrahim"},{"text":"1862 ...Although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.","author":"The Catholic Church","tags":["catholic","judgement","sins","ssa"],"id":55480,"author_id":"The+Catholic+Church"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":136,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}