Quotes of Sacrilege - somelinesforyou

“ Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue. ”

- Jeremy Taylor

“ 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

“ We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America. ”

- Norman Cousins

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

- Paul Rudnick

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

- Salman Rushdie

“ 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

“ Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. ”

- Mae West

“ I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the "f" word. ”

- Helena Bonham Carter

“ 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 pro athletes are bilingual. They speak English and profanity. ”

- Gordie Howe

“ 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

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

- Salman Rushdie

“ The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. ”

- Henry Miller

“ Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege! ”

- Jerome Richardson

“ All great truths begin as blasphemies. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Gordie Howe

“ It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. ”

- William Cowper

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

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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