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“It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Soul Hard Father President Sin Genius Balance Congress Caught Checks Good People Senate Founding

Book:Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Source: Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.”

Men World Certain Sin This World Balance Originals Strikes Mood Throwing Original Sin

Book:Moby-Dick

Source: Moby-Dick

“Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.”

People May Together Moving Sin Knowing Balance Sitting Let Me Suspicion Maxims

Book:The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka

Source: The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka

“God has decided the rules of life, whereby you don't trespass on anybody else's rights, and sin is something that upsets the balance of things. There are three types of sin: sin against yourself; sin against other people; and sin against God. People often sin against themselves and others and misbehave with God, too.”

People Sin Balance Upset Rules Of Life

Author:Cat Stevens

“Why do you tolerate it? (Kat) The same reason Sin hasn’t resigned himself to death. There are six billion people on earth who need someone to protect them from things that are scarier than the tax man or a knife-wielding stranger. Things that a gun won’t stop. As long as their lives hang in the balance, what’s a little humiliation for me? (Acheron)”

People Men Needs Littles Long Reason Earth Sin Balance Protect Taxes Six Gun Stranger Billions Knives Tolerate Humiliation Resigned

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon