Cain Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant." "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.

  Derek Landy

  Men, Cynical, Missing

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• If God told Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, and Herman Cain to run for president, then God obviously wants Barack Obama to win.

  Randi Rhodes

  Running, Winning, President

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• Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.

  Steven James

  Jesus, Trying, Steps

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• People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.

  Fannie Flagg

  Thinking, People, Choices

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• I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Brother, Devil, Way

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.4, Bibliolis Books

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• Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.

  Gloria Allred

  Ideas, Important, Receiving

  "Blonde Bombshell from Chicago Accuses Cain". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 7, 2011.

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• NHPrimary Trivia: The Republican candidates have not spoken to a black person since Herman Cain dropped out.

  Andy Borowitz

  Black, Trivia, Republican

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jan 11, 2012

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• The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

  African Spir

  War, Humanity, Sacred

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 51), 1937.

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• Herman Cain has suspended his presidential campaign, but he has asked the Secret Service if they could continue to provide him protection, at least until his wife cools off.

  David Letterman

  Wife, Presidential, Secret

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• Herman Cain told a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters to go home, get a job, and get a life. That's the Republican version of hope and change, ladies and gentlemen.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Wall, Home

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• I'll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!

  Abraham Polonsky

  Loyalty, Brother, Betrayal

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• Herman Cain compared his run for president to Moses leading his people out of Egypt. Cain said it took Moses 40 years to lead his people out of Egypt, but he could do it in 30 minutes or less.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Egypt, Years

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• Cain understands domestic issues because he had experience selling pizza; and he understands international issues because pizza is Italian.

  Stephen Colbert

  Italian, Issues, Selling

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• Herman Cain answered the Wall Street protesters, and he had a message for these protesters. He said, 'If you don't have a job, if you're not rich, don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the banks, blame yourself.' And a nation of out of work teabaggers said, 'Yeah! Hey, wait a minute.'

  Bill Maher

  Jobs, Wall, Waiting

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• Will Herman Cain become the first black President that I acknowledge? I call him a dark horse because he's an unlikely candidate who surged forward, and not because he's a horse.

  Stephen Colbert

  Horse, Dark, Black

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• In a new interview, Herman Cain said that if Rick Perry were an ice cream flavor, he'd be 'Rocky Road.' I don't know, Perry's not really any flavor of ice cream. He's just the brain freeze part.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Ice Cream, Brain, Flavor

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• Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Hypocrite, Men

  Joseph Hall (1837). “Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.113

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• There is a growing threat to the environment, to the vegetation, animals, water and air. Sacred Scripture hands us the image of Cain who rejects his responsibility: 'Am I my brother's keeper?' The Bible shows the human person as his brother's keeper and the guardian of creation which has been entrusted to him.

  Pope John Paul II

  Brother, Responsibility, Animal

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• The ghost of the heart of manred Cain
  And the more murderous brain
  Of Man, still redder Nero that conceived the death
  Of his mother Earth, and tore
  Her womb, to know the place where he was conceived.

  Edith Sitwell

  Mother, Heart, Men

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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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 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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• 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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• 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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