“Indictment for blasphemy: That ... the prisoner had repeatedly maintained, in conversation, that theology was a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense, patched up… — Thomas Aikenhead Copy Share Image
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they… — Arthur C. Clarke 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Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question,… — John Michael Sherlock Copy Share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
“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
Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the… — George William Foote 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
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
I remember there was a turning point. I think it came right after 'Forrest Gump' when I turned down the cover of… — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and… — George Eliot 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
Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims. — Frank Gaffney 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
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
“That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.” — William Shakespeare 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
There were periods in Islamic history when things like apostasy and blasphemy were made punishable. So you know it kind of depends… — Sadakat Kadri 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
Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
