Blasphemy Quotes

“Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.

— Flannery O'Connor

Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.

— Richard Dawkins

All our blasphemies are only little prayers.

— Antoni Lange

“this is blasphemy and you're a heretic”

— Drew Ketterer

There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.

— Oleg Kulik

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

— Margaret Halsey

Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.

— Donna J. Haraway

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

— Andre Gide

“To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

— Herman Melville

A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

When I told you I didn't want you it was the blackest kind of blasphemy

— Stephenie Meyer

In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

— Leo Tolstoy

It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

— Ephrem the Syrian

The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never…

— Martin Luther

“Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental…

— Frank Herbert

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little…

— Mark Twain

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to…

— Salman Rushdie

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

Every fair-minded person holding a position of authority must support the few who have stood up against the injustice being perpetrated in…

— Asma Jahangir

All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an…

— Neale Donald Walsch

In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is…

— Anonymous

“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

“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

As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth…

— Francis of Assisi

Those who make pictures of the Savior, who is God as well as man in one inseparable person, either limit the incomprehensible…

— Philip Schaff

One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule, say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or environmentalists. That…

— Lloyd Billingsley

It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they…

— Richard Dawkins

Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God,…

— Stephen Prothero

The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on earth You…

— Therese of Lisieux

Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy,…

— Anonymous

“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

“Princess Cookie’s cognitive pathways may have required a more comprehensive analysis. He knew that it was possible to employ certain progressive methods…

— Ashim Shanker

All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Blasphemy is more complicated than the simple act of cursing God. It is an attempt to remove our cultural eyeglasses, or at…

— Derrick Jensen

Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds…

— Julien Benda