Quotes of Irreverence - somelinesforyou

“ The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. ”

- Robertson Davies

“ Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god. ”

- Mark Twain

“ It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ”

- Jacob Bronowski

“ That in the captain 's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. - Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The only way to the top is by persistent, intelligent, hard work. ”

- A.T. Mercier

“ Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy. ”

- Salman Rushdie

“ Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. ”

- Robert G. Ingersoll

“ I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning. ”

- George Eliot

“ There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God. ”

- Simone Weil

“ There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice. ”

- Unknown

“ Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ Blasphemy is a victimless crime. ”

- Unknown

“ All great truths began as blasphemies. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. ”

- Gordie Howe

“ Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy. ”

- Martin Luther

“ Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. ”

- Bible

“ Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety. ”

- Plato

“ Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. ”

- Alistair Cooke

“ It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ”

- Jacob Chanowski

“ All great truths begin as blasphemies. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. ”

- Gordie Howe

“ Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. ”

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“ I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity. ”

- John le Carré

“ Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God. ”

- Salman Rushdie

“ There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy. ”

- Paul Rudnick
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