Cain Quotes

• We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Insanity, Saved

  Address on the 4th of July, delivered 4 July 1899, London, England

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• Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America!

  Herman Cain

  Israel, America, President

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• And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.

  Pia Zadora

  Strong, Women, Writing

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• Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train.

  Phillis Wheatley

  Christian, Black, May

  Phillis Wheatley (2008). “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.

  Warren Jeffs

  Wife, Devil, Ark

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• You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Can might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Blessing, Class

  Journal of Discourses, vol. 7 (p. 290), 1863.

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• God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

  Abraham Cowley

  Garden, Cities, Firsts

  "The Garden" l. 44 (1668) See Cowper 5

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• The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase in population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; them Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the people were bored en masse.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, People, Boredom

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• Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Children, Heart, Men

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 1, 1951.

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• We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Cities, People, Solitude

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

  Anthony Burgess

  Children, Son, Civilization

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• I challenge anyone to tell me that there isn’t evil in this world. From the days of Cain and Abel we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn’t take away our freedoms. In fact, the only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

  Taya Kyle

  Evil, Challenges, Cain And Abel

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• God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

  Ambrose

  Kindness, Land, Rude

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• "The way of Cain" refers to any individual who attempts to approach God on his or her own terms rather than on God's terms.

  Robert Jeffress

  Way, Individual, Term

  Dr. Robert Jeffress (2016). “Not All Roads Lead to Heaven: Sharing an Exclusive Jesus in an Inclusive World”, p.49, Baker Books

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• Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not approaching it from the scientific point of view. I'm saying: Why do we need that? It's a sordid story, a depressing story, a dark story. Why should I believe that I'm a descendant of either Cain or Abel? Thank God there is a third son! [Genesis 4:25]

  Elie Wiesel

  Depressing, Believe, Son

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.

  Megan Abbott

  New York, Writing, Years

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• Herman Cain is out there, he says a lot of provocative things. He said America should build its own Great Wall of China. Cain says it's a great idea because if there's one thing you don't see in China, it's Mexicans.

  Conan O'Brien

  Wall, Ideas, America

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• Herman Cain said, starting today, if you buy into his 9-9-9 plan, he'll throw in a free 32-ounce soda.

  David Letterman

  Soda, Today, Starting

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• Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain.

  Lou Reed

  Religious, Religion, Able

  Song: My Red Joystick, Album: New Sensations

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• For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed.

  Abba Hillel Silver

  Earth, Faces, Outcast

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• The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.

  Eric Schlosser

  United States, Murder, Enormous

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• As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Art, Father, Philosophy

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1851). “De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851”, p.24

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• This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.

  Anne Lamott

  Earth, Abel, Killing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do.

  Marcel Theroux

  Hurt, Fighting, Men

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• I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

  Joan Kirner

  Deputies, Ministers, Very Happy

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