Atheism Quote by 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

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

— Henry Fielding

The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they…

— Barbara Tuchman

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

— Elizabeth Aston

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

— Madame de Stael

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 typical clergy/laity system practiced among most churches is detrimental to believers. In this system only a professional class of people teaches and preaches,…

— Henry Hon

“The Men, who have taken care to engross the affairs of Religion, as well as others, to their own management, are no more guided…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

“The desire we so often hear expressed today for “episcopal figures,” “priestly men,” “authoritative personalities” springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival…

— H. L. Mencken

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.

— Richard P. Stanley

I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without…

— Henry VIII of England