Jesuit

"I didn't want to go into the papal bureaucracy, so I thought of doing a postdoctoral thesis, which they call a 'Habilitation' in German universities, on alchemy in the work of Albert the Great." Ivan Illich

"Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women." Leo Tolstoi

"It is a reality that we have complete control of organised Christianity. Almost anywhere, completely. We 'Jews' must become lawyers so we could control and strangle the courts, we should become teachers and leaders in all the churches." Harold Wallace Rosenthal

"We Jews continue to be amazed with the ease by which Christian Americans have fallen into our hands. While the naive Americans wait for Khrushchev to bury them, we have taught them to submit to our every demand." Harold Wallace Rosenthal

"I am not the official church Jesus. The one tolerated among policemen, bankers, judges, executioners, officers, church bosses, politicians, and similar representatives of power. I am not your superstar!" Klaus Kinski

"Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest." Khalil Gibran

"I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other." Peter Ustinov

"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this." C. S. Lewis

"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." George Orwell

"An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex." Aldous Huxley

"People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be." Paul Farmer

"I've always been a religious guy, but not overly religious. I've always believed in God and Jesus. I pray." Kevin Sorbo

"On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order." Eugen Rosenstock

"These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle." Allan Bloom