Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) writer and salonist
In "Gods", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)
“All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
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Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
This charge of inferiority is an old dodge. It has been made available for oppression on many occasions. It is only about six centuries since the blue-eyed and fair-haired Anglo Saxons were considered inferior by the haughty Normans, who once trampled upon them. If you read the history of the Norman Conquest, you will find that this proud Anglo-Saxon was once looked upon as of coarser clay than his Norman master, and might be found in the highways and byways of Old England laboring with a brass collar on his neck, and the name of his master marked upon it were down then! You are up now. I am glad you are up, and I want you to be glad to help us up also.
1860s, What the Black Man Wants (1865)
“Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.”
Mark Kingwell (1963) Canadian philosopher
Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 3, Virtues And Vices, p. 77.
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
page 103.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
“All seed except Mary was vitiated [by original sin].”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
by original sin Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works, English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St. Louis], Vol. 11, WA, 39, II:107
Francis de Sales book Introduction to the Devout Life
Pt. 2, ch. 15
Introduction to the Devout Life (1609)
“Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.”
Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer
“Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin.”
Pope Pius XII (1876–1958) 260th Pope of the Catholic Church
Radio Message of His Holiness Pius XII to Participants in the National Catechetical Congress of the United States in Boston https://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/speeches/1946/documents/hf_p-xii_spe_19461026_congresso-catechistico-naz.html, from Castel Gandolfo on Saturday, 26 October 1946
“The original sin is to limit the Is.”
Richard Bach book Illusions
—Don't.
Source: Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
“For the genes it made sense, of course. Otherwise it would not have happened.”
Stephen Baxter book Evolution
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 18 “The Kingdom of the Rats” section III (p. 597)