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Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.
— Philip Pullman
Original sin - the big lie.
— Art Hochberg
Odorous as a crateful of bad eggs with the miasma of original sin.
— Anthony Burgess
I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
— Susan Sarandon
There is no original sin. It's all been done before.
— Louis Dudek
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.
— Lord Henry Wotton
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
— Fran Lebowitz
Never look back's a good motto in our line of business. Too many bloody ghosts following.
— Jaime Delano
His hands had been reddened, like all men's hands, in the slaying before the foundation of the world.
— C.S. Lewis
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
— Steven James
The other day I made an epigram. I said, Anni's beauty is only sin-deep. I hope that's original? Is it? Please laugh.
— Christopher Isherwood
There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.
— Desmond Harrington
The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.
— Swami Vivekananda
The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.
— John Fund
Original sin is a very commercial idea," said Duyckinck. "How do you think the Bible stays in print year after year?
— Mark Beauregard
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
— Alfred Rosenberg
The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.
— Barack Obama
There's no such thing as an original sin.
— Elvis Costello
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
— Barbara Tuchman
Original Sin has great marketing potential.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot of the things that the nuns taught me.
— Susan Sarandon
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.
— Timothy Leary
Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.
— Charles Baudelaire
The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
— Richard Bach
Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."
— Peter Kreeft
Since humanity came into being, man hath enjoyed himself too little: that alone, my brethren, is our original sin.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Maybe this is another way to think about original sin - the ingrained lure of the possibility of going numb, a habit of acquiescence to it.
— Krista Tippett
The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.
— Michael Lee West
There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.
— Edward Abbey
Fear is the original sin," wrote John Foster. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.
— L.M. Montgomery
In the original Greek, one of the meanings of sin [hamartia] is simply to miss the mark.
— Adyashanti
In his natural perversion, a man wants to lie with a hooker, wed a virgin, and keep both.
— Ron Brackin
Some say that this is the Israelis' original sin. With this I do not agree but I think we can call it Israel's immaculate misconception.
— Avishai Margalit
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
— Thomas Aquinas
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
— Charles Baudelaire
Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.
— Mason Cooley
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
— Sargent Shriver
In certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
— Herman Melville
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Original sin was always never knowing when to stop, sweetheart.
— Sarah Caulfield
Satan's inquisitiveness would eventually be inherited by the offspring of Adam and Eve. The inquisitiveness was the original sin.
— Tomichan Matheikal
Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin ... I poked a badger with a spoon.
— Eddie Izzard
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
— Jose Bergamin
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
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, ThouSaw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead — C.S. Lewis
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.
— Thomas Keneally
If you saw the crowd I used to run with ... let's just say we put the original in original sin.
— Tiffany Reisz
An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.
— Thomas Campbell
Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
— G.K. Chesterton
Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.
— David Cronenberg
Annie: Maybe you all do. It's my idea of the original sin.James: What is?
Annie: Giving up. — William Gibson
The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.
— Georgia Harkness
No sin is original, no matter what the bright young things may hope. We're all merely playing to a theme.
— Lauren Willig
Don't commit original sin. Try and let her just be.
— Thomas Pynchon
'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.
— Jason Aaron
Revolutions produce other men, not new men. Halfway between truth and endless error, the mold of the species is permanent. That is Earth's burden.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
— Robert Penn Warren
From the get-go, 'Original Sin' was always as much a Nick Fury story as anything else.
— Jason Aaron
The doctrine of Original Sin is the most democratizing idea in all of human history.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield