Blasphemy Quote by George Bernard Shaw Download Open image “Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).” — George Bernard Shaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blasphemy Church Church and state States Truth
Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question, criticise and… — John Michael Sherlock Copy Share Image
“Every culture has blasphemy laws. They are not always called that, but no society allows citizens to rail against the reigning deity. In our… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century we have become accustomed to the fact that - in the name of the nation - Catholics will fight Catholics,… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental edicts.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
As George Bernard Shaw observed: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Yet I have to say, the idea that there is intelligent life elsewhere… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Now 'South Park' - they are interested in blasphemy. They're interested in creating offence for its own sake. — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will be a troublesome one, to whomsoever… — John Adams Copy Share Image
That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I know! But you would… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science… — John Adams Copy Share Image
All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
