There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
This was what the universities were turning out nowadays. The science-is-a-sacred-cow boys. People who believe you could pour mankind into a test-tube… — Frank M. Robinson Copy Share Image
“I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“A female's body should be looked at and respected as something divine. At least, that was the original thought, but time marches… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Yesterday, voters in the state of Maine voted no to gay marriage, but yes to medical marijuana. That's right, people in Maine… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God.… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You heard me, only Friend whom I love. To ravish my heart, you became man. You shed your blood, what a supreme… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
When you look at what is happening to our world-and it is hard to look at what's happening to our water, our… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the leaders of the church have locked the sacred cow called science in the stable and they won't let… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“It was funny, she was thinking, how something that had seemed sentimental and important, and even more - almost sacred - could… — Rona Jaffe Copy Share Image
A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had… — Ivor Gurney Copy Share Image
The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“In the indigenous world, we assign sacred value to circles. But sometimes a circle just means you keep returning to the same… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Nationalism is an animal trait, not a human one - sacredness is a secular practice, not sectarian - culture is an act… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon is in absolute harmony from start to finish with other sacred scriptures. There is not a doctrine taught… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I'm not questioning that Donald Trump won the election. But there's nothing more sacred than our democratic process in the United States.… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Because marriage is a sacred institution and the foundation of society, it should not be redefined by activist judges. For the good… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if… — Ahmed Ben Bella Copy Share Image
“Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion, let me relive my Love’s memory, to remember her body, so brave and so free, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me,… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Children's Justice Campaign reminds us of our sacred obligation as adults to raise ourselves into consciousness so that our children may… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
