Popes Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience… — Martin Luther
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of two… — Avery Dulles
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead… — George Bernard Shaw
The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder… — Lord Acton
I read in the newspaper that the Catholic Church finally decided that it had been theologically improper to try to convert the Jews. Whoops! Sorry… — Alan Dershowitz
The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see this in the… — Pope Francis
For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will? — William Tyndale
I saw also the relationship between the two popes I saw how baleful (evil; harmful) would be the consequences of this false church. I saw… — Anne Catherine Emmerich
God has set popes over kings and kingdoms. — Pope Boniface VIII
Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but it also means… — Fareed Zakaria
We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather,… — Terence McKenna
Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors,… — Ken MacLeod
Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way… — Mary Blakely
Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of… — J. Irwin Miller
Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates to maintain these… — Oliver Ellsworth
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at… — Ezra Heywood
The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build. — Philip Johnson

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