Martin Luther
Theologian
"A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it"
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Pope
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Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"The Pope? How many divisions has he got?"
Martin Luther
Theologian
"I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist."
Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?"
Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage."
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"I want the Pope to have the Christ consciousness. I don't want to just talk about Christ."
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"Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist."
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"Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity"
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"Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X"
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"I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt."
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"In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches."
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"After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers."
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"[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air."
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"I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world."
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"I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility."
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"From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes."
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"The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes."
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"One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer."
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"[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody."
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"Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew."
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