There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do… — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an… — Grimes Copy Share Image
The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“The Middle Ages have served as a historical arena within which two schools of thought have done battle—one school accusing the medieval… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
There isn't any (afterlife), you dingbat! This is it, baby! Enjoy, carefully! Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started.… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I had in mind going worse than waterboarding. It's enough. We have right now a country that's under siege. It's under siege… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
“Singing rose up from the convent, filling the woods with a peaceful echo that tried to penetrate her heart and smooth her… — Kate Willis Copy Share Image
In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
“It took a long moment, but Gerard finally raised his head and looked Jon in the eye. “It meant that I have… — Hank Edwards Copy Share Image
Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Even historians, who should know better, still seem addicted to the idea that nothing of any consequence occurred between the fall of… — James Hannam Copy Share Image
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In some aspects of alternative medicine we are fighting an almost medieval belief in magic but debunking such beliefs is like telling… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
“I must learn to be as the bear in a cage with the stick that pokes it always, through the bars. The… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
“Sir Wystan,” Ryla stated. “You have come. Is the danger quite near?” “Not yet, little one, but it is always wise to… — Kate Willis Copy Share Image
I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
“He stared at me and, though the fate he pronounced was golden, there was a malevolence in his dead eyes. ‘You will… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
In most cases, obviously, soldiers fought because a government drafted them and gave them a rifle. At every point too, we see… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
As president I would actually name the enemy, radical Islamic terrorists. We've got a president [ Barack Obama] who wants to apologize… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
My concern is to keep religion and the state separated. I don't think that religion and politics go together. When you see… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
Medieval people didn't have special rooms for sleeping, just a single living space for everything. They put up with this lack of… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
I've had lots of ideas. For example, I had the idea of making a small version of the Vatican's dome. I also… — Justo Gallego Copy Share Image
![“The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't invent it, he just put it all in one package. You get twelve fat books there sitting in any library. Whereas... I think if Joshi thinks [H.P.] Lovecraft was…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a35/paul-laffoley-7077_book_the-whole-thing-that-dante-alighieri-did_82075.jpg)
![“As president I would actually name the enemy, radical Islamic terrorists. We've got a president [ Barack Obama] who wants to apologize for America and wants to criticize medieval Christian and wants to wage war on junk food. He won't even say the words "radical Islamic terrorists."” quote by Bobby Jindal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f03/bobby-jindal-6682_america_as-president-i-would-actually-name-the-e_3124308.png)
