It is indolence ... indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to t...ake the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His creed no parson ever knew, For this was still his "simple plan,"... To have with clergymen to do As little as a Christian can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Victoria: Would you believe me if I told you we were in love? King: No.... Victoria: Because homosexuality is unnatural and a sin? King: According to who? Victoria: Oh, pious clergymen and terrified heterosexuals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From time to time we met a priest in the streets, for they are distinguished by their dress, like the civil police. Like clergymen... generally, with or without the gown, they made on us the impression of effeminacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you ...think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion or by br...ibery. They will not need persuasion or bribery, if their hearts are with us; if they are not, we are better without them. It is idle to suppose that the kingdom of heaven cannot come on earth, without their cooperation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that ...is already alive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and ... when they fail to do this purpose they become dangerously str...uctured dams that block the flow of social progress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »