Irreverence Quotes
34 Irreverence quotes by 28 unique authors
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the…
— Brendan Behan
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
— Mark Twain
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Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.
— Richard Branson
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True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
— Mark Twain
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Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.
— Mary Ruefle
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We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.
— Pierre Boulez
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Irreverence is our only sacred cow.
— Paul Krassner
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Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom.
— Simon Schama
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The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes…
— Paul Krassner
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There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.
— Stan Getz
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Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of…
— Erich Fromm
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However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong
— Boyd K. Packer
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On previous occasions when God incarnated on earth, the bliss of recognising Him in the incarnation was vouchsafed only after the physical embodiment had left…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo,
— Nomi Prins
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In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies on political and…
— Nomi Prins
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.
— Antonio Machado
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Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself at my most…
— Tom Lehrer
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If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains…
— D. H. Lawrence
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In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo,…
— Vinod Khosla
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What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence.
— Kesha
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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
— Robertson Davies
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A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.
— Mark Twain
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