Original Sin Quotes

80 quotes by 71 authors

The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid. — Tom Anderson
The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin. — Swami Vivekananda
...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin,… — Pearl S. Buck
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations. — Aldous Huxley
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act… — Emile M. Cioran
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed… — James Bryce
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow… — Malcolm Bradbury
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility. — Alfred Rosenberg
There is no original sin. It's all been done before. — Louis Dudek
There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody. — Desmond Harrington
Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin. — David Milch
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to… — Helen Hayes
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. — Fran Lebowitz
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. — Oscar Wilde
The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't. — Richard Bach
Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own… — Anthony Burgess
Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sinâ€¦ I poked a badger with a spoon. — Eddie Izzard

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