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“If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.”

People Ifs Self Seems Political Certain Sin Waste Prejudice Reform Deception Selfishness Flaws Wasting Time Self Deception Political Reform

Author:Steven Pinker

“How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.”

Sin Prejudice Committed Immense

Author:Suzanne Curchod

“It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of nature were connected, by an invisible chain, with the moral and metaphysical opinions of the human mind; and the most sagacious divines could distinguish, according to the colour of their respective prejudices, that the establishment of heresy tended to produce an earthquake, or that a deluge was the inevitable consequence of the progress of sin and error.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.”

“My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.”

World Mind Parent Sin Race Talent Taught Prejudice Great Minds Robbing Racial Prejudice Depriving Anti Racist

Author:Edward Brooke

“A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.”

Way Giving Two Sin Lord Giving Up Prejudice Humble Saved Excellent Willingness Possessed Principal Disciple Our Lord Readiness Teachable

Book:Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke

Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke

“To overcome prejudice, we can boldly speak against it and teach our children total intolerance for it. We can get to know one another; when we do so, the stereotypes that impede relationships will fall away. Finally, we can express regret to others for past prejudicial sins and ask God to forgive us and change our thinking.”

Thinking Knows Children Past Fall Asks Speak Sin Teach Regret Overcoming Prejudice Our Children Forgiving Intolerance Stereotype

Author:Beth Moore

“The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.”

Sin Prejudice Rejects Thelema Willful Ignorance

Book:The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 1.

Source: The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 1.

“All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.”

Life May Real Life Is Sin Holy Prejudice Ghost Holy Ghost Sedentary Intestines

Book:The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

“I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls.”

Source: Some Mistakes of Moses

“My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same thing about men? (...) Response [by Lady Rectitude]: "Fair sweet friend, have you not yet heard the saying that the fool sees well enough a small cut in the face of his neighbour, but he disregards the great gaping one above his own eye? I will show you the great contradiction in what the men say about the changeability and inconstancy of women. It is true that they all generally insist that women are very frail [= fickle] by nature. And since they accuse women of frailty, one would suppose that they themselves take care to maintain a reputation for constancy, or at the very least, that the women are indeed less so than they are themselves. And yet, it is obvious that they demand of women greater constancy than they themselves have, for they who claim to be of this strong and noble condition cannot refrain from a whole number of very great defects and sins, and not out of ignorance, either, but out of pure malice, knowing well how badly they are misbehaving. But all this they excuse in themselves and say that it is in the nature of man to sin, yet if it so happens that any women stray into any misdeed (of which they themselves are the cause by their great power and longhandedness), then it's suddenly all frailty and inconstancy, they claim. But it seems to me that since they do call women frail, they should not support that frailty, and not ascribe to them as a great crime what in themselves they merely consider a little defect.”

Source: The Book of the City of Ladies