"To a philosophic eye, the vices of the……" — Edward Gibbon
"To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues."
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95 Quotes by Edward Gibbon
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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst…
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious…
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is…
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory,…
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Style is the image of character.
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of…
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'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The…
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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain…
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and…
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In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
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More Clergy Quotes
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived,…
— Adolf Hitler
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
— Thomas Jefferson
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The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable…
— Thomas Jefferson
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That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their…
— James Madison
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The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
— George Washington
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There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only…
— Albert Einstein
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The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.
— Richard P. Stanley
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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They…
— Leo Tolstoy
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