Blasphemy Quotes
123 quotes by 97 authors
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Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
— Herman Melville
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Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be…
— Catherine Marshall
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It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance…
— Joseph Heller
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They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even…
— Isaac Asimov
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If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held…
— Bertrand Russell
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God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in…
— John Adams
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Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.
— Orson Scott Card
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The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering…
— Stephen King
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... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in…
— Matthew Woodring Stover
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This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that…
— John Kennedy Toole
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Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering…
— Sophie Scholl
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You’re not asleep, and you’re not dead. I’m here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
— Salman Rushdie
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Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there to sniff aught…
— Tamora Pierce
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When I told you I didn't want you it was the blackest kind of blasphemy
— Stephenie Meyer
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The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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I . . . hit him . . . elsewhere.†“Where?†“In his . . .In his inguine.†“Oh, dear God.†It was unclear whether…
— Sarah MacLean
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It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous.…
— N.K. Jemisin
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