I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The original sin of Brexit - the lies, contradictions, half-truths and omissions on which it was built - have come back to… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
“To proceed with the Biblical curiosities. Naturally you will think the threat to punish Adam and Eve for disobeying was of course… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate… — Tom Anderson Copy Share Image
Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin. — David Milch Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin.… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
“Demon” means “knowledge” in Greek. “Science” means “knowledge” in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The sinful state and condition in which men are born is designated in theology by the name peccatum originale, which is literally… — Louis Berkhof Copy Share Image
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“Naturally, therefore, these people talk about 'a happy time coming'; 'the paradise of the future'; 'mankind freed from the bondage of vice… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions,… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“The trouble with me is, Treece thought, that I'm a liberal humanist who believes in original sin. I think of man as… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
“There may come a time when you will wish you had never tasted the fruit from the tree of knowledge. There may… — Louise Hawes Copy Share Image
The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity.… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered,… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals are the kind of people who demand evidence and are shocked by logical inconsistencies and fallacies. They regard oversimplification as the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
