Cain Quotes

• We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Insanity, Saved

  Address on the 4th of July, delivered 4 July 1899, London, England

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• Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America!

  Herman Cain

  Israel, America, President

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• You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Can might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Blessing, Class

  Journal of Discourses, vol. 7 (p. 290), 1863.

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• Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train.

  Phillis Wheatley

  Christian, Black, May

  Phillis Wheatley (2008). “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.

  Warren Jeffs

  Wife, Devil, Ark

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• And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.

  Pia Zadora

  Strong, Women, Writing

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• God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

  Abraham Cowley

  Garden, Cities, Firsts

  "The Garden" l. 44 (1668) See Cowper 5

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• The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase in population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; them Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the people were bored en masse.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, People, Boredom

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• Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Children, Heart, Men

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 1, 1951.

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• We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

  Anthony Burgess

  Children, Son, Civilization

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• We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Cities, People, Solitude

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• I challenge anyone to tell me that there isn’t evil in this world. From the days of Cain and Abel we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn’t take away our freedoms. In fact, the only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

  Taya Kyle

  Evil, Challenges, Cain And Abel

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• Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not approaching it from the scientific point of view. I'm saying: Why do we need that? It's a sordid story, a depressing story, a dark story. Why should I believe that I'm a descendant of either Cain or Abel? Thank God there is a third son! [Genesis 4:25]

  Elie Wiesel

  Depressing, Believe, Son

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

  Ambrose

  Kindness, Land, Rude

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• What always strikes me in the story of Cain and Abel is how often the word "brother" is used. Cain killed his "brother." God says it was "the blood of your brother." The killing was done to another human being, a child of God like you, breaking that sacred bond of common humanity.

  Allan Boesak

  Brother, Children, Blood

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness, he became the father of an inferior race. A curse was placed upon him and that curse has been continued through his lineage and must do so while time endures...

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Father, Blessing, Race

  "The Church of Latter-Day Saints: Heterosexism, Racism and ‘Revelation’" by Warren J. Blumenfeld, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2012.

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• The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the heads of all the great departments of trade, and the law of Cain, which repudiates the obligations that we are mutually under to one another, is fostered and made the rule of action throughout the world. Corporate feudality has taken the place of chattel slavery and vaunts its power in every state.

  James B. Weaver

  Struggle, Taken, Law

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• The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and fugitives. The Jews will not dare to raise their necks, bowed under the yoke of perpetual slavery, against the reverence of the Christian faith.

  Pope Innocent III

  Christian, Jesus, Guilt

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• That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

  William Shakespeare

  Skulls, Political, Politics

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.705, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?

  Herbert Hoover

  Brother, Philosophy, Fundamentals

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• "The way of Cain" describes any religious system that attempts to earn God's favor by works and rituals rather than reliance on God's grace.

  Robert Jeffress

  Religious, Grace, Favors

  Dr. Robert Jeffress (2016). “Not All Roads Lead to Heaven: Sharing an Exclusive Jesus in an Inclusive World”, p.49, Baker Books

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• "The way of Cain" refers to any individual who attempts to approach God on his or her own terms rather than on God's terms.

  Robert Jeffress

  Way, Individual, Term

  Dr. Robert Jeffress (2016). “Not All Roads Lead to Heaven: Sharing an Exclusive Jesus in an Inclusive World”, p.49, Baker Books

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• Let's be honest, the cards' on the table:
  Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel.
  Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus.
  It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas.

  Pusha T

  Weed, Jesus, Rap

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• How do you beat Obama? Beat him with a Cain!

  Herman Cain

  Beats

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• Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.

  Alveda King

  Voting, Black, Would Be

  "Why the Establishment Wants to Destroy Herman Cain" by Dr. Alveda King, www.foxnews.com. November 9, 2011.

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