Clerical Quotes

24 Clerical quotes by 24 unique authors

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine. — Noam Chomsky
So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar… — Tori Amos
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as… — William Hazlitt
Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One. — Roger Mahony
I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the… — Bel Kaufman
London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to… — Nick Cohen
My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of… — J. C. R. Licklider
If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the… — Ken Robinson
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are… — Richard de Bury
It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became… — Soren Kierkegaard
Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the years… — Robert Farrar Capon
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when… — Christopher Hitchens
To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor. — Albert Einstein
The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not… — William Ralph Inge
Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally… — Ivan Illich
I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had… — Giovanni Ribisi
The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy. — William P. Leahy
It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St.… — Pope Francis
I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven. — Jim Butcher
The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy. — Lev Grossman
If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency. — David Mitchell
Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment,… — Vladimir Lenin
Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock. — Marcus Brigstocke
Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar… — Gloria Steinem

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