Moral Failings Quotes

Hell is full of good intentions and wills.

We are all people who have messed up. I fall short every single day.

There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

We are all human, and all do wrong.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

I've always been fascinated with what motivates people's transgressions and the scandalous journey into infamy.

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles.

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.

For those of us on this planet who have never done wrong and are always right and are just down right 100% perfect all the time, life can be hard.

Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.

Aren't all people flawed?

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left behind. Traditional values aren't as crucial as social conservatives would have you believe — and, in any case, the social changes taking place in America's working class are overwhelmingly the consequence of sharply rising inequality, not its cause.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

Most students of Kissinger find it hard to say anything about Kissinger that isn't about the man himself. He is such an outsize figure that he eclipses his own context, leading his many biographers, critics, and admirers to focus nearly exclusively on the quirks of his personality or his moral failings.