A Quote by Adrienne Rich

I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.

Adrienne Rich

Quote Topics

Am Because Believers Demoralized Gays Including Little Many Organized Organized Religion Persecuted Poetry Profession Religions Talking Uncomfortable Use Women

Quote Author

Adrienne Rich
American - Poet
May 16, 1929 - March 27, 2012

Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture.

Kenny Smith

There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft.

Upton Sinclair

The fact that the Church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women, is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

Pope Benedict XVI

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

Pope Benedict XVI

Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who use to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with any more. It doesn't matter who the individual women are.

Andrea Dworkin

Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Gore Vidal

Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.

Otto von Bismarck

Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

Julius Wellhausen

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

Arthur Middleton

The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard to the facts to be observed and the diverse hypotheses it has laid down for their coordination. Never having been hampered by a priestly order, each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe.

Romain Rolland

Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?

Margaret Mead

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.

Paul P. Harris

I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.