John Steinbeck Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

  John Steinbeck

  Wrath, People, Stuff

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.19, Hamilton Books

• Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.' We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.

  John Steinbeck

  Brother, Men, Hands

  "East of Eden".

• There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.

  John Steinbeck

  Nice, Men, People

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.19, Hamilton Books

• A fallow field is a sin.

  John Steinbeck

  Hard Work, Fields, Action

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.188, Hamilton Books

• Thou mayest rule over sin.

  John Steinbeck

  Sin

  John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.728, Penguin

• Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.

  John Steinbeck

  Boys, Thinking, Design

  John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

• The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up.

  John Steinbeck

  Giving Up, Men, Littles

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.146, Penguin

• Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Men, Fire

  "The Portable Steinbeck: 2".

• ... every little boy thinks he invented sin.

  John Steinbeck

  Boys, Thinking, Littles

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.235, Penguin

• It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?

  John Steinbeck

  Hands, Water, Black

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.116, Penguin

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