Priests Quotes
634 quotes by 445 authors
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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
— William Blake
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I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from…
— Lenny Bruce
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To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become. Then the teachers,…
— Rajneesh
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Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates a repulsion, where…
— Rajneesh
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During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture,…
— Rajneesh
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In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and…
— Thomas Paine
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'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper…
— George Herbert
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Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.…
— Carl Sagan
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[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
— Albert Einstein
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I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and…
— Vladimir Lenin
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[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.
— David Hume
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My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth of water and…
— Martin Luther
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Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.
— Gerhard Richter
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He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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