I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism. — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest — Glenn Danzig Copy Share Image
I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants. — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One. — Roger Mahony Copy Share Image
This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was very religious when I was younger. I went to a seminary for three years, studied to be a priest, and… — Peter P. Mahoney Copy Share Image
If priest is closed to forgiveness, he won't receive it, because he locked the door from the inside. And what remains is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty;… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
There had been a free and open election in Haiti in the early 1990s and president Jean-Bertrand Aristide won, a populist priest.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where… — William Blake Copy Share Image
From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image