Priests Quotes

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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
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
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
[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
From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. — Albert Einstein
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
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
[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals. — David Hume
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
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
Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world. — Gerhard Richter
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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