Scandalous Quotes

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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. — Simone de Beauvoir
Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on. — Sophia Bush
Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous. — Tupac Shakur
We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love… — David Brooks
I'm not scandalous. I think it's actually embarrassing to be in those, yet some people will do anything to be in those magazines. I'm happy… — Hilary Duff
When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital… — Thurgood Marshall
This is a very fashionable charge to bring against a company. This is one of the consequences, in this country, of being in the Internet… — James Hunt
Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the… — Edward Abbey
Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishnessâ€”there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire,… — Orson Scott Card
God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow.… — Shane Claiborne
This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet… — Paul Clark
Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that… — Herbert Hoover
It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far… — Bob Geldof
I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about… — Bill Shankly
As soon as people realize that the majority of people in this country take drugs then the better off we'll all be. It's not like… — Noel Gallagher
The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is… — Alice Miller
I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate. — Isabella Rossellini
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret… — Jean Cocteau
An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is… — Pier Paolo Pasolini
The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where… — Friedrich Engels

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