(319 quotes found)
“Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.”
Aristotle Onassis
“The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”
Denis Diderot
“Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god”
Charles Buck
“They said this mystery never shall cease: the priest promotes war, and the soldier peace”
William Blake
“In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests”
Thomas Paine
“ALTAR, n. The place whereupon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female tool.They stood before the altar and supplied The fire themselves in which their fat was fried. In vain the sacrifice! --no god will claim An offering burnt with an unholy flame. --M.P. Nopput”
Ambrose Bierce
“The priest is the personification of falsehood”
Giuseppe Garibaldi
“The poet is the priest of the invisible”
Wallace Stevens
