Children Quote by Dean Koontz

Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest -…

— Keith O'Brien

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism

— John Haynes Holmes

“Priests and politicians were equally bad, Allan thought, and it didn’t make the slightest difference if they were communists, fascists, capitalists or any other…

— Jonas Jonasson

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

— John Haynes Holmes

“Excessive wealth, enormous power, and luxury, Chrysostom charges, are destroying the integrity of the churches. Clerics, infected by the disease of “lust for authority,”…

— Elaine Pagels

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality…through faith.”

— Terry Goodkind

“Theocracy has been rightly abolished not because it is bad that learned priests should govern ignorant laymen, but because priests are wicked men like…

— C.S. Lewis

“Pedophiles the world over. If you want to do that insufferable thing you do without care, concern, and/or worry; become a Catholic priest. Birds…

— A.K. Kuykendall

“And as the observance of religious teaching is the cause of the greatness of republics, similarly, disdain for it is the cause of their…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“As far as I know, only politicians can make this kind of miracle staying more than 30 years of their entire life lying or…

— Frederick Vanderbuilt