Envy Quote by Edward Gibbon

“Moreover, the papal system has opposed the march of civilization and liberty throughout the world, by denouncing the circulation of the Bible, and the…

— John Foxe

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the…

— Pope Francis

“It was Pope Innocent III who placed in the hands of the church this terrible weapon of persecution, and who, by the awful severity…

— Rafael Sabatini

The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of…

— Lord George Gordon

“virtue without power,” as a speaker had said at the Council of Basle half a century earlier, “will only be mocked, and that the…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“...the Pope vigorously upholds the real power of redemption to liberate the human heart from the domination of lust, calling men and women to…

— Christopher West

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

— Viggo Mortensen

I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no…

— Lord Acton

“Thus the popes, sometimes in zeal for religion, at others moved by their own ambition, were continually calling in new parties and exciting new…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

— Pope Francis

“Popes come and go, empires clash, new worlds arise, but Rome is eternally Rome, which is to say that its people were busy as…

— Sara Poole

“By the presence of the Papacy, mind, conscience, heart, were blasted; while ignorance, superstition, iniquity, increased and prevailed.”

— Various