Deadly Sins Quotes - Page 3

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

Reid Hoffman

Greed, Ego, Sloth

"Reid Hoffman", www.wsj.com. June 23, 2011.

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The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

Robert Breault

Attention, Morality, Sin

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Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!

David Mitchell

Soul, Sin, Hell

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The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.

Paul Johnson

Fear, Evil, Envy

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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

Douglas Coupland

Sin, Conflict, Seven

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Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church to insure guilt on the part of its followers.

Anton Szandor LaVey

Christian, Hurt, Indulge In

"The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the least sexy of the seven deadly sins. Thomas Aquinas winnowed it down for me: acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh prevails completely over the spirit. You don’t just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don’t care, and you don’t care that you don’t care.

Mishka

Christian, Sexy, Sadness

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The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.

Max Lerner

Government, Competition, Groups

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The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Animal, Research, Disease

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As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

Robert Breault

Funny, Humorous, Pride

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Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

Peter Drucker

Evil, Envy, Hatred

Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

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Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.

Michael Pollan

Pride, Evil, Affliction

Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

Chuck Eddy

Hair Metal, Radio, Albums

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At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

Ian Fleming

Mistake, Play, Gambling

Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I find it to be incredibly motivating.

Jonathan Sadowski

People, Envy, Sin

Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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