Barbara Tuchman Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Capitalist Economy, Usury, Sin

  Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.66, Penguin UK

• To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Book, Order, Original Thought

• Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Sex, Matter, Sin

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.547, Random House

• Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Males, Female, Sin

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.211, Random House

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