Authority Quote by John Adams

My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes… This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's…

— John Adams

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

— John Adams

There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit and that is a Jesuitess.

— Eugene Sue

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits… Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only…

— John Adams

The Jesuits…are a secret society – a sort of Masonic order – with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous.

— Samuel Morse

“Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging…

— Pat Conroy

I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it…

— Peter Hammill

“Thirdly, in other parts, where they have a written language, as in the East-Indies, China, Japan, &c. they know nothing of the gospel. The…

— William Carey

I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.

— Sergio Leone

“But for all that, our native priests are more devout than your French Jesuits. We have a living Church here, not a dead arm…

— Willa Cather

Having these ideas what scheme could we think of to forward this object. I look into history and I read the story of the…

— Cecil Rhodes