Desecration Quotes

16 quotes by 12 authors

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain,… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which… — Friedrich August von Hayek
There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business… — Wendell Berry
We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land. — Wendell Berry
At first, I thought 'this series is going to be all about death and desecration,' but instead became a more complex landscape of human relationships.… — Ralph Steadman
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration. — Atom Egoyan
We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents. — William J. Brennan
Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote. — Kenny Marchant
Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people. — Larry Craig
The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and… — Charles Dickens
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. — Adrian Cronauer
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear… — Larry Craig
Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered. — William J. Brennan
I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration. — Gwendolyn Brooks
To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a… — Wendell Berry
We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what… — Franz Wright

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