Paul Craig Roberts Quotes

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.

An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

It takes a man to make a devil.

Today, not a numerous, but an active part of the German people are beginning to realize, not that they have been led astray, not that bad times await them, not that the war may end in defeat, but that what is happening is sin and that they are personally responsible for each terrible deed that has been committed - naturally, not in the earthly sense, but as Christians.

Evil does not grow out of the soil, nor does mischief spring from the ground. Only man is born to do mischief, just as sparks fly upward.

Whoever believes that Aristotle was a god, must also believe that he never erred. But if one believes that Aristotle was a man, then doubtless he was liable to error just as we are.

Passion, prejudice, and error, are characteristics of human nature ….. Literary talents may be prostituted, and the powers of genius debased to subserve the purposes of ambition or avarice.

The depraved nature of man is well known. He has a natural bias toward his own interest, which will prevail ... unless checked.

No man lives without fault.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

We do have the best justice system in the world—in theory. The problem is that it is run by human beings. Human beings make mistakes

Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature ...

We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

People talk about drones like they're a bad thing, but they forget there are people behind them. It's a lot easier to blame the technology than to accept that people are a cancer on this planet.

Once I saw that we were not the ultimate arbiters of divine truth but flawed human beings, I couldn't pretend otherwise.

No man, no woman is without their flaws.

Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.

I'm accountable to my God, and I haven't done anything I'm embarrassed of.

Smart people are no different than anyone else. Sometimes they exercise bad judgment, like we all do.

You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving 'inhuman,' it's not. It's very human - it's just not a very nice side of it.