Philip Pullman Quotes About Authority

Quotes about: Authority

• I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

  Philip Pullman

  Strong, Writing, Authority

• As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Order, Doctrine

• Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive.

  Philip Pullman

  Names, Law, Forgiving

  Philip Pullman (2009). “The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ”, p.88, Canongate Books

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