"War is a profane thing." — Norman Schwarzkopf

More Profane Quotes

This quote is filed under Profane Quotes, one of 110 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent… — Theodor Adorno
• There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. — Isaac Newton
• Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material,… — Clement of Alexandria
• None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But… — Ravi Zacharias
• The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a… — William Lyon Phelps
• With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting… — William Buckland
• The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
• The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only… — Stephen King
• Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane. — St. Jerome
• But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look… — Adolf Hitler
• It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and… — Meir Kahane
• And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your… — Georges Bernanos

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