Art Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.

— Wole Soyinka

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

— Anonymous

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific, which requires…

— Robert Sheaffer

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

— Robert Genn

Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is…

— Rick Santorum

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

— Dennis Potter

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

— Thomas Jefferson

In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.

— Anne Royall