Anticlericalism In Europe Quotes & Sayings

But our secrets do not keep us. They worry at us; they wear us away, from the inside out. — Hilary Mantel

There are so many futures still to dawn! — Friedrich Nietzsche

The first shooter video game stuff which - look, admittedly, I missed that generationally, so it's not a thing for me. I've never played them. I don't really get it. My kids do. — Rob Lowe

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man. — H. Rider Haggard

You can never quench the desires of the greedy.
Do not attempt to quench the desires of the lustful. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The end of toleration in 1685 left a legacy of bitterness and instability in France, for it failed to destroy the Huguenots, while encouraging an arrogance and exclusiveness within the established Catholic Church. In the great French. Revolution after 1789 this divide was one of the forces encouraging the extraordinary degree of revulsion against Catholic Church institutions, clergy and religious that produced the atrocities of the 1790s; beyond that it created the anticlericalism which has been so characteristic of the left in the politics of modern southern Europe. In the history of modern France, it is striking how the areas in the south that after 1572 formed the Protestant heartlands continued to form the backbone of anti-clerical, anti-monarchical voters for successive Republics, and even in the late twentieth century they were still delivering a reliable vote for French Socialism. — Diarmaid MacCulloch

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle. — Jane Austen

In your eyes I have always found grace. — Cassandra Clare