Quote by Barbara Kingsolver Download Open image ““Priests were illegal, saying the mass was illegal, all banned by the Revolution.”” — Barbara Kingsolver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“If a person commits an illegal act, it is a crime; if a million people does the same, it is a revolution.” — Dario de Judicibus Copy Share Image
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“it was all wrong from the point of revolutionary technique. It was too legal and too slow.” — R.G. Waldeck Copy Share Image
“Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental edicts.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
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“That's Catholicism for you. A perpetual war between repression and excess.” — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“...more men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a century of… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest!” — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Lusa turned to Crys, her eyes shining. "That was a luna." Crys shrugged. "So?" "So? So what? You want it should sing, too?” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image