Ambition Quote by Marquis de Sade

Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first…

— Thomas Jefferson

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

— Phillips Brooks

All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.

— Anton Chekhov

You got a lot of fradulent rebels and revolutionaries who are really false prophets.

— Prodigy

“Well then, I will tell you. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded great empires; but upon what did these creations of our…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things  -  they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot…

— Shane Claiborne

I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah,…

— Philip Yancey

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for justice and…

— Noam Chomsky

Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd…

— Thomas Otway

“He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure…

— Terry Pratchett

Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really…

— William Hazlitt