Popes Quotes
29 quotes by 26 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder…
— Lord Acton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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God has set popes over kings and kingdoms.
— Pope Boniface VIII
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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