Desperate people are the most dangerous.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

Lord Peter Wimsey: The worst sin – perhaps the only sin – passion can commit, is to be joyless.

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.

I do not think idolatry the worst of sins. Cruelty is the worst of sins. It is far better to worship a false God, than to injure your neighbor—far better to bow before a monstrosity of stone, than to enslave your fellow-men.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

Despair is a mortal sin; it is the rejection of an active, living faith in Christ.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatest
of them all, because it is the only one that sins against life.

Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!'

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

The errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst.

Self-pity, he said, is the most demoralizing of all vices.