Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Honesty, Business, Integrity

• It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Book, Heart, Animal

• Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Eye, Men, Poverty

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.86, 1909.

• Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Wish, Doe

• My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Doubt, Sin, Principal

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.527, Modern Library

• How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Deceit, Sin

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.117, Xist Publishing

• It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Girl, Nice, Looks

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.227, Oxford University Press, USA

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