Irreverence Quotes

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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
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.
I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence. — Kesha
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
A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty. — Mark Twain
Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for… — Frank Herbert
Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is… — Saul Alinsky
The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive… — Arthur Koestler
It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think. — Sherry Argov
Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know. — L. Lionel Kendrick
Impiety, n.: Your irreverence toward my deity. — Ambrose Bierce
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society, except that which makes the road safer, the beer stronger, the old men and women… — Brendan Behan
It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to… — Unknown Author
We must turn back to God. We have thrown God out of our homes, schools, colleges and universities and the vacuum so created has been… — Dada JP Vaswani

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