Character Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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 are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

— David Hume

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

— John Haynes Holmes

“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

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

Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the legal system,…

— Mario Bunge

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

“We Catholics have not only to do our best to keep down our own warring passions and live decent lives, which will often be…

— Ronald A. Knox

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

— Anonymous

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which…

— Thomas Jefferson

Priesthood ordinances are the pathway to the power of godliness.

— David A. Bednar