Dangerous Quote by Manohla Dargis

Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy…

— David Berlinski

“He was more embarrassed and discreet about sex than about things I thought more difficult, like killing people, which pretty much defined the history…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Vatican is like a huge kind of magician's club. The more you look into it the more awful it becomes. And they're laughing…

— Peter Mullan

“Come on, Peter, we have to get ready." "I am sorry, Father, for what?" "An exorcism, my boy!" "Did the Vatican...?" "Oh please, the…

— Karen Greco

“He reminded me that I was not the first priest to acknowledge his sexuality and that despite the Vatican’s stance, a chaste and celibate…

— Charles Benedict

“The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people…

— Sonya Renee Taylor

“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 Vatican has a reputation for secrecy and intrigue. If I have my way, that will cease. But in any large organization there are…

— Glenn Meade

“Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would…

— Graham Greene

“Nothing is spared me in this life,” he remarked wryly, “now a woman has to go mad in the Vatican.”

— Linda Rodríguez McRobbie

I went to the Vatican once - it was a bad idea. I went into the bookshop and I bought hideous, pious postcards and…

— John Waters

“The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.”

— H.G. Wells