Aristotle Onassis
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"Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin."
Priests quotes
Priests
106 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God."
Wallace Stevens
Poet
"The poet is the priest of the invisible."
Robert A. Heinlein
Science Fiction Author
"Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly."
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"you [priests] are called 'another Christ.'"
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"I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life."
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"Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species."
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"I shall always be a priest of love."
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"Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke."
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"I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests."
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"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."
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"Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity."
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"Despair makes priests and friars."
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"Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult."
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"Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures."
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"The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests."
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"Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests."
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"Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition."
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"The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?"
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"Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent."
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"But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests."
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"The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family."
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"I swear by the mighty power of Amon-Ra, whose anger can shatter the world, and by the dread power of Set, that I will never betray my trust as High Priest of Karnak."
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"The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden."
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