Contempt Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

“Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging…

— Pat Conroy

The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors. Being superior…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The simpler explanation,' Emerson with a distinct uvular component in his Sigh, 'may be that none of you people has ever known a moment…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Thirdly, in other parts, where they have a written language, as in the East-Indies, China, Japan, &c. they know nothing of the gospel. The…

— William Carey

My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is…

— John Adams

“...to lead an individual along a spiritual path consonant with the person's gifts and personality...[The Jesuit training of novitiates and lay students]”

— John W. O'Malley S.J

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

— John Adams

There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit and that is a Jesuitess.

— Eugene Sue

The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind…

— Francis Parkman

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince…

— Hu Shih

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits.... Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only…

— John Adams

“In marked contrast to the relaxed, typically Latin attitude of the Dominicans the Protestant missionaries were still proceeding at full blast with the fight…

— Philippe Descola