Quotes About Transgression

'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

Polanski is a great example of a person whose personal life clearly has been just fraught with scandal and transgression and criminal acts. And yet, in 'Rosemary's Baby,' I think he's made one of the crowning feminist statements in film.

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Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

Writing unfolds like a game that invariably goes beyond its own rules and transgresses its limits. In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is rather a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.

Every road from Rousseau leads to Sade.

Our sermon today concerns the dialectic Blessings in transgression & transcendence.

there is no comparison between Adam's transgression and the gracious gift that we experience. For the magnitude of the gift far outweighs the crime.s It's true that many died because of one man's transgression, but how much greater will God's grace and his gracious gift of acceptance overflowt to many because of what one Man, Jesus, the Messiah, did for us!

Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?

On matters of transgression in the social sphere, Zen's deficiencies cannot be blamed on an indifferent or unresponsive attitude, for in some cases it has been actively pursuing a reprehensible agenda. Perhaps part of the problem is Zen's apparent lack of a sense of good versus evil on a metaphysical level in stressing that all phenomena are interconnected and interpenetrating.

Hurt inflicted, if lesse than the benefit of transgressing, is not punishment... and is rather the Price, or Redemption, than the Punishment of a Crime.

Y aún hay una forma de explotación más criminal a sus ojos: la explotación del tiempo, ese delito que consiste en cobrar una prima por el mero transcurso del tiempo, es decir: los intereses, y abusar así, para ventaja de unos y a costa de otros, de una institución divina y universal para todos como es el tiempo.

She waited, guttering with a small meek defiance, standing at the window and trembling, moonlight from a high angle pouring over her naked back, casting on it shadows of her shoulder blades, like healed stumps of wings ritually amputated once long ago, for some transgression of the Angels' Code.

Kusanagi had met plenty of good, admirable people who'd been turned into murderers by circumstance. There was something about them he always seemed to sense, an aura that they shared. Somehow, their transgression freed them from the confines of a mortal existence, allowing them to perceive the great truths of the universe. At the same time, it meant they had one foot in forbidden territory. They straddled the line between sanity and madness.

If no one has boundaries…how can there be any transgression?

The wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones.

the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and, divesting itself of every temporary advantage, becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief;