Controversial Sayings

1,571 sayings found from the Early Modern era

God has created men with broad chests and shoulders, not broad hips, so that men can understand wisdom. But the place where the filth flows out is small. With women it's the other way around. That's why they have lots of filth and little wisdom.

— Martin Luther c. 1530s-1540s
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The woman is like a nail, driven into the wall. . . . She sits at home.

— Martin Luther c. 1530s-1540s
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I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

— Martin Luther c. 1520s
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After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

— Martin Luther c. 1520s-1540s
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Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil to its source, and bathe their heads in the blood of the Catholic bishops, and of the Pope, who is the devil in d…

— Martin Luther c. 1520s-1540s
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You abominable abomination.

— Martin Luther 1545
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Your Hellishness.

— Martin Luther 1545
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The very devil himself would thank you for such an event, and no one but the miserable devil and his devilish scum.

— Martin Luther 1545
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Your home, once the holiest of all, has become the most licentious den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the kingdom of sin, death, and hell. It is so bad that even Antichrist himself, if he should come, could think of nothing to add to…

— Martin Luther c. 1520s-1540s
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What devilish unchristian thing would you not undertake?

— Martin Luther c. 1520s-1540s
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You are an extraordinary creature, being neither God nor man. Perhaps you are the devil himself.

— Martin Luther c. 1520s-1540s
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Even if the Antichrist appears, what greater evil can he do than what you have done and do daily?

— Martin Luther c. 1520s-1540s
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The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience.

— Martin Luther c. 1520s-1540s
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The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

— Martin Luther c. 1520s-1540s
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We consider EVERYTHING allowable against the deception and depravity of the papal antichrist.

— Martin Luther c. 1520s-1540s
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Those who despise these, or treat them with contempt, are worthy of purchasing, adoring, and praising the pope's excrement as balsam.

— Martin Luther c. 1530s
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Again, the Lord wills that whoever confesses his sins and believes the absolution should be forgiven. 'No,' says ass-pope fart, 'faith does nothing; but your own repentance and atonement do, as well as the recounting of all your secret, forgotten, an…

— Martin Luther 1545
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You Mr pope. are a brothel keeper. and the devil's daughter in hell.

— Martin Luther c. 1540s
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you popes are desperate thorough arch rascals murderers traitors liars the very scum this is number 10 of all the most evil people on earth you're full of all the worst devils in hell full full and so full that you can do nothing but vomit throw and …

— Martin Luther c. 1540s
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Why call her inferior, who gives birth to kings?

— Guru Nanak c. 15th-16th century
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