A Quote by Richard Condon

In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm.

Richard Condon

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Chasm Difference Gods Ideological Interpreted King Mexico Nuance People Priests Ruled Spain Wide

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Richard Condon
American - Novelist
March 18, 1915 - April 9, 1996

It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

H. P. Lovecraft

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Ted Hughes

Whoever truly worships the gods loves their priests.

Statius

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

Natalie Wood

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Langston Hughes

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Robert Green Ingersoll

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Henry David Thoreau

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Ambrose Bierce

The American people love immigration. They just want it obeyed. They want the laws obeyed. They want there to be assimilation.

Rush Limbaugh

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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George Santayana

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Pope Francis

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Rudyard Kipling

The last thing our founding fathers wanted was to be ruled by king with absolute power, and the next to the last thing they wanted was to be ruled by a temporary king with absolute powers for four years.