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• If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices, will tend towards ego-driven disharmony. Traditionalist conservatives know that absent the restraining hand of religion, tradition, or the state, there is nothing to prevent human beings from acting in ways contrary to their own best interests, or those of the community.

  Rod Dreher

  Religious, Believe, Men

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• Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems? Do you realize how demanding it will be to turn yourself into a wildly disciplined, radically curious, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, ingeniously loving, aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lustfully compassionate master of rowdy bliss?

  Rob Brezsny

  Dream, Inspiration, Interesting

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books

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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

  Mind, Use, Unqualified

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.

  Desmond Tutu

  Doe, Discrimination, Sin

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  People, Sin, Nobility

  "The Face of the Third Reich". Book by Joachim Fest, chapter 13, part 3, 1970.

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• There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

  Desmond Harrington

  Pay, Sin, Repentance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Pride, Men, Sin

  "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book VII, Chapter 3, 1735.

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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 in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.

  James Bryce

  Men, Doors, Views

  "The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government".

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• We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Temptation, Sin

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Silly, Evil

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Self, Soul, Inability

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• Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Race, Blood, Humanity

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and bound by nothing except the injunction of the Church. Should the same renunciation not be possible if this injunction is replaced by the admonition finally to put an end to the constant and continuous original sin of racial poisoning, and to give the Almighty Creator beings such as He Himself created?

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, People, Giving

  Adolf Hitler (1943). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.

  F. Sionil José

  Light, Compromise, Sin

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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 healthy inheritance of original sin comes out in the book and I enjoyed raping and ripping by proxy. It is the novelist’s innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Writing, Personality

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• Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Greed, Paradise

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are greed, hatred and delusion. Well, delusion is not much mentioned in the Christian tradition. In the West, we have underplayed the idea that our moral and spiritual troubles have to do with a lack of clarity or insight because original sin has dominated so much of our thinking. We tend to think that our troubles are caused by insufficient will power.

  Ninian Smart

  Christian, Spiritual, Buddhist

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Men, Suffering, Doe

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• The original sin is not that we are inherently flawed, born sinners, or imperfect; the original sin is that we do not recognize, realize that each of us is born perfect, exactly as the universe, God intended us to be. We are all perfect. The universe is perfect. Stop struggling against yourself. Accept that you are perfect. When you do, your highest self will shine through.

  Michael Anthony

  Struggle, Acceptance, Self

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• To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

  Henry Adams

  Life, Trust, Education

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.286, Harvard University Press

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• One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Two, Needs, Firsts

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• Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange families batten on their sons, lying on top of them like giant parasites. They not only prey upon their strength, but gnaw away at the sons' right to exist. The fathers punish, but they are at the same time the accusers. The sin of which they accuse their sons seems to be a kind of original sin.

  Walter Benjamin

  Lying, Father, Integrity

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• If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the harm caused, especially to children, by the pernicious doctrine of original sin, a case could be made for saying that the world would have been better off without Christianity.

  A.J. Ayer

  Religious, Children, War

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• If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world.  If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth.

  Gerald Hausman

  World, Earth, Way

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• The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin.

  Pope Pius IX

  Faith, Jesus, Blessed

  Catholic Church. Pope (1846-1878 : Pius IX), John R. Sheets, Pope Pius IX (1854). “Ineffabilis Deus: Defining the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception : Apostolic Constitution of Pius IX, Issued December 8, 1854”, p.21

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