Attention Quote by Barbara Tuchman

[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the…

— Bertrand Russell

“For all clergymen whom I had yet met, regarded mankind and their interests solely from the clerical point of view, seeming far more desirous…

— George MacDonald

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do…

— Bertrand Russell

The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Men are hard-wired for risk taking—particularly young men. The number one killer of fifteen- to twenty-four-year-old males is accidents.6 Female investors hold less risky…

— David Murrow

I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion or by…

— Anonymous

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

— Henry Fielding

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

— Madame de Stael

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

— R. C. Sproul

Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral…

— Alister E. McGrath

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

— Elizabeth Aston