Quotes of Profane - somelinesforyou

“ Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew? ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan — spoiled. ”

- Israel Zangwill

“ The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy. ”

- Trent Lott

“ Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. ”

- Henry Van Dyke

“ Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Man is challenged to participate in the sufferings of God at the hands of a godless world. He must therefore plunge himself into the life of a godless world, without attempting to gloss over its ungodliness with a veneer of religion or trying to transfigure it… ”

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“ But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers. ”

- Bible

“ With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous will be delivered. ”

- Bible

“ Who saves his country violates no law. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Great writers are the saints for the godless. ”

- Anita Brookner

“ All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. ”

- Communist Manifesto

“ As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them. ”

- Robin Williams

“ And the wind shall say "Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.". ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it. ”

- George MacDonald

“ The straight line is ungodly. ”

- Friedensreich Hundertwasser

“ There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ War is a profane thing. ”

- Norman Schwarzkopf

“ Men blaspheme what they do not know. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. ”

- Bible

“ An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity. ”

- Bible

“ Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly. ”

- Georges Rouault

“ Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. ”

- Bible

“ I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice. ”

- Linda Ronstadt

“ We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world. ”

- Silvia Cartwright

“ The pests of society are the egotists, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. ”

- Theodor W. Adorno

“ Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled, not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. ”

- Georges Bataille

“ No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. ”

- George Washington

“ Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children. ”

- Patrick Buchanan
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