Desecration Quotes
16 quotes by 12 authors
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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
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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
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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
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We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
— Wendell Berry
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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
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My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
— Atom Egoyan
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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
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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
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
— Larry Craig
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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
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Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
— Adrian Cronauer
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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
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Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.
— William J. Brennan
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I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Desecration Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 16 Desecration Quotes as follows: