All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I think I have felt most profoundly that in our disruption of the most basic physical processes of creation, we are engaged… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“To ask whether Christ is profound is blasphemy, and is an attempt (whether conscious or not) to destroy Him surreptitiously; for the… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Now try these Drivetime talismans on for size: organized chaos … wild discipline … reverent blasphemy … self-effacing grandiosity … fanatic moderation … selfish gifts … twisted calm … garish elegance … insane poise … ironic sincerity … blasphemous prayers … orgiastic lucidity … aggressive sensitivity … convoluted… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“If He ever did come back, if He ever dared to show His face, or his Glyph, or whatever in the Garden… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
“Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their raison d'etre was a kind… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“When I told you that I didn’t want you, it was the very blackest kind of blasphemy.” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.” — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image
There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question,… — John Michael Sherlock Copy Share Image
I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice. — John Osborne Copy Share Image
There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham… The greatest blasphemy… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There is an inherent blasphemy in seeking to add to what Christ Jesus in His dying moments declared to be finished, or… — SPURGEON C H Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of people like me and people who believe in the true Islam to stand up and say, that… — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims. — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
There's no definition of blasphemy in this law. Then this only protects the one religion, whether we agree or not. I as… — Shahbaz Bhatti Copy Share Image
There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“At times I might hate the behavior, but don’t confuse that with my feelings regarding the person. For it is all too… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If there is not laughter in intimacy, it becomes heavy, burdensome, and dull. At my best moments, the love dialogue I try… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
![“I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you describe. This must be owing to the growth of Presbyterianism. The blasphemy of the five points of Calvin, and the impossibility of defending them…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c6e/thomas-jefferson-43_blasphemy_i-had-no-idea-however-that-in-pennsylvan_2564008.jpg)
![“It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/89f/richard-dawkins-115_absurd_it-is-an-absurd-law-section-295a-of-the_2936887.jpg)
