The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes. — William James Copy Share Image
I always asked my mother, I said, 'Momma, how come is everything white?' I said, 'Why is Jesus white with blond hair… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
I've been around so long, I can remember when it was a rhetorical question to ask, "Is the pope Catholic?" Now it's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Pope John Paul II is the great. Only two other popes had that title. Does that suggest there is going to be… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
With The Pogues, at least the first three albums I'll stand by completely, yeah? Because I was in artistic control then, yeah?… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
Well, first of all, let me say, Erik Palladino, Paul Schulze, Ian Reed Kesler, even Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Carly Pope, we just had… — Aaron Korsh Copy Share Image
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may judge the Pope. — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
On Easter, the Pope asked for peace in the Middle East. There are two groups the Pope has to contend with -… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism,… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That… — Blaize Clement Copy Share Image
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a… — Benjamin Smith Copy Share Image
The Pope is not putting himself out on a limb, he's putting himself up on the Cross, and that's what he's called… — Theodore Edgar McCarrick Copy Share Image
