Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Sectarian priests cry out concerning me, and ask, "Why is it this babbler gains so many followers, and retains them?" I answer,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone… — Dennis McKenna Copy Share Image
He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
...in every religion the priest insists on five things - First: There is a God. Second: He has made known his will.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors. — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature.… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I have now gone through the Bible, as a man would go through a wood with an axe on his shoulder, and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries. — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
We have Islamic rebels [in Syria] who've been eating the hearts or organs of their enemies. We have priests that have been… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Iain's gaze went back and forth between Gillian and Brodick. "Father Laggan's back," he remarked. "And there's another, younger priest named Stevens… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image