What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

  • -- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin 玛丽·葛德文

除了那些唯一行使理智的人,即教士们的贪婪之外,还有什么能使教会获得如此巨大的财产呢?一个人为了摆脱炼狱的黑暗折磨,献出了他易腐烂的物质。

相关名言

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

语言是人类理性的一种形式,它具有人类一无所知的内在逻辑。

Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.

外邦人是没有理由吃蛋黄酱的人。