Original Sin Quotes
80 quotes by 71 authors
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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
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The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.
— Swami Vivekananda
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
— Alfred Rosenberg
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There is no original sin. It's all been done before.
— Louis Dudek
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There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.
— Desmond Harrington
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Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.
— David Milch
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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
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
— Fran Lebowitz
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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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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
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The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
— Richard Bach
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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
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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
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Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.
— Eddie Izzard
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