Profanity Quotes

88 quotes by 69 authors

Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes. — Spencer W. Kimball
Words are a form of personal expression. They differentiate us as well as fingerprints do. They reflect what kind of person we are... — Charles A. Didier
Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the… — Gordon B. Hinckley
What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Do angels take the Lord's name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question. ... How dare we… — George Q. Cannon
No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a… — David O. McKay
Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it... Don't swear. Don't profane. Avoid so-called dirty jokes. Stay… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be… — Ezra Taft Benson
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence for the name… — Ezra Taft Benson
We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation… — Spencer W. Kimball
Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and the… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife. — Tommy Lasorda
The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV, period. — Randall Wright
In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around. — George Carlin
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that. — Mark Twain
It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick. — Mark Twain
Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it. — Robert McKee
Do you want me crucified for my profanity? — Ozzy Osbourne
Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably. — Randall Dale Adams
I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices. — Bill Cosby

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