In mockery are the seeds of impiety sown.

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

— Aeschylus

“Defamation; is an act of impiety.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

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

— Plato

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

— Herbert Spencer

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

— Ambrose Bierce

Impiety, n.: Your irreverence toward my deity.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of…

— Adolf Hitler

Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery.

— Terry Jones

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled…

— Mark the Evangelist

Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.…

— Karen Marie Moning

“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

— Ralph Nader

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom…

— Emily Robison