Karl Kraus Quotes

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests—who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, sometimes invents them.

... common people may not presume by their intellect to attain to the sublime height as of revelation nor preach it to others.... There remains for them but one thing to do, to obey.

Mark this, you that despise and oppose the Message of the Lord God that he sends by Women; What had become of the Redemption of the whole Body of Mankind, if they had not cause to believe the Message that the Lord Jesus sent by these Women

All gods have good points, just as have all priests

No human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.

There's lots of sins in this life. We're all sinners. If you don't believe in God and you don't believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.

We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience.

They all did it – by which I mean, virtually the entire hierarchy is complicit to a greater or lesser degree in shuffling child-molesting priests around, or keeping them in some way in a position to commit their crimes. Why? Clericalism. The clerical class is what mattered most to these people, not the children and their families...

Evil is the handiwork of the rabbis and priests.

I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

Verily, there are many of the [Jewish] rabbis and the [Christian] monks who devour the wealth of mankind in falsehood, and hinder [them] from the Way of Allah

There are two principles by which the world is ruled: the authority of priests and the royal power. The authority of priests is the greater because God will demand an accounting of them even in regard to kings.

Clergymen are the ticket scalpers outside the gates of heaven. Religion has been a curse to mankind.

Christianity is the hallmark of civilization.

It is not for the pastors of the Church to intervene directly in the political construction and organization of social life.

God's friend, priests' foe

This nations must stand for or against Christ.

Here, every man labors for himself, and not to pamper the pride of royalty, not to support kingly pomp, luxury, and dissipation! Here, no ghostly priest stalks forth, and by virtue of prerogative seizes upon a tenth of the hard earnings of the industrious poor, leaving them in a state of want and wretchedness; but they may apply their little all to the conveniences of themselves and families.

Give us a religion that will help us to live—we can die without assistance.

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings.

There would never have been an infidel had there never been a priest.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

Strive to imbue that people with good morals, and bring it to pass, as well through yourself as through those whom you know from their faith, doctrine, and course of life to be fit for such a work, that the church may there be adorned, the Christian religion planted and made to grow, and the things which pertain to the honor of God and to salvation be so ordered that you may merit to obtain an abundant and lasting reward from God, and on earth a name glorious throughout the ages

He who is near the church is often far from God.

There are many preachers who don't hear themselves.