Jesuit Quotations

My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my exams and thought, 'I don't really want to do a degree.' I did philosophy with the Jesuits for about a year, and then I joined a bank. While I was there, I saw an ad in an Irish paper for radio announcers.

Philosophers see no harm in the Jesuits other than in their effect on humanity and the sciences. The vulgar and especially the prejudiced only hate them from an envy and jealousy born out of conspiracy and intrigue at an organisation which overshadows them.

Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians.

The war, the American Civil War of 1861-1865, would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits.

The Jesuits have disseminated half a story, while burying the other half. They are engaged in a campaign of cover-up and spin that places all the blame on Jim.

Precisely for this reason, St. Ignatius wanted young Jesuits to be formed for long years in the spiritual life and in studies.

I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.