Aphrodisiac Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it…

— Thomas Jefferson

In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

— Richard B. Garnett

I don't use the word 'renaissance'. It's flawed because in Latin, it's tied to the rebirth of Christ... It's a word that's tied to…

— John Ralston Saul

“Count ANGELO DE GUBERNATIS once remarked to one of the most distinguished English statesmen that there was in the country in Tuscany ten times…

— Charles Godfrey Leland

“They demanded tolerance, and the right to worship as they wished, but they were never satisfied with that, he thought with exasperation. They believed…

— Ken Follett

“Zeal to expunge every trace of Romish superstition resulted in text scrutinizing and “arguments from silence” that forbade traditions such as the exchange of…

— Lori Branch

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

— Edward Gibbon

“As Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, has admitted regarding the suppression of the traditional Mass by…

— Christopher A. Ferrara

One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also…

— Marie Rutkoski

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting…

— Salman Rushdie

“Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism;…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Puritanism, he said, was a reaction to the loss of moral fiber that accompanied the Renaissance.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman