I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My feeling is that in the purest form, an actor is a service to the people. It's democratic in its purest form.… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The power of theocrasy or exercise of government rule over the masses by a hierarchy of priests or adepts rested on its… — Edith Starr Miller Copy Share Image
But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man,… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or… — Tim Pratt Copy Share Image
Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old… — Andrew Linzey 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
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Deathless Kings, High Priests, let’s call them the thaumaturgical class, are growing used to power and the resources that accompany it. They… — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends.… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
Everybody has to find it whatever helps. Religion is very helpful for people. A good friend is very helpful. A priest is… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It is not the man who is responsible for the offerings as they become Christ's Body and Blood; it is Christ Himself… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I had 50 pastors, ministers, I had priests, I had a couple of rabbis in a big conference room in one of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious,… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
![“The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial radio broadcaster] Father Coughlin and [racist and anti-Semitic agitator and founder of the Christian Nationalist Crusade] Gerald L.K…” quote by James Ellroy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcc/james-ellroy-2967_anti-semitic_the-lunatic-populism-that-preceded-the-p_1871634.jpg)
