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“I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.”

World Facts Christian Political Social Christ Sin Education Prove Ethics Reign Comprehensive Unbelief Atheistic Anti Christian Anti Social Propagation

Author:Archibald Alexander Hodge

“The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.”

Long Real Social Term Sin Security Long Term Social Security Short Term Rip Scams

Author:Tony Snow

“If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.”

People Ifs Long Left Social Sin Forgiveness Forgiving Icy

Book:The Letters of Robert Frost

Source: The Letters of Robert Frost

“The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.”

Facts Christian Certain Social Sin Class Virtue Ethics Consequence Fundamentals Labels Defects Christian Ethics

Book:Education and the Social Order

Source: Education and the Social Order

“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.”

Made Lying Religion Social Church Sin Christianity Tasks Empty Lips Lawyer Cruelty Made It Hypocrisy Sinner Avarice Cloaks Rite Misers Immunity Deference Lip Service

Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.”

“I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.”

Knows Country Social Sin Christianity Charity Hypocrisy Multitudes Garments Fashionable Social Life

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins.”

Social Sin Ready Apology Multitudes

Author:Humphry Davy

“Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. If one colony member devotes its life to service over marriage, the individual is of benefit to the society, even though it does not have personal offspring. A soldier going into battle will benefit his country, but he runs a higher risk of death than one who does not. An altruist benefits the group, but a layabout or coward who saves his own energy and reduces his bodily risk passes the resulting social cost to others.”

Ifs Doe Country Running Individual Energy Social Sin Results Virtue Risk Groups Higher Battle Cost Members Benefits Soldier Selfishness Coward Altruism Versus Selection Offspring Colony

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight from family life, sexual permissiveness, the failure of individuals to work hard. For liberals, the gravest sins are intolerance, a lack of generosity toward the needy, narrow-mindedness toward social and racial minorities.”

Important Matter Hard Individual Social Sin Hard Work Flight Generosity Minorities Disagree Intolerance Family Life Needy Irresponsibility Narrow Mindedness

Book:Why Americans Hate Politics

Source: Why Americans Hate Politics