Blasphemy Quote by Ricky Gervais Download Open image “Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.” — Ricky Gervais ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blasphemy Deities Feelings Feelings Hurt Funny religious Hurt Hurt feelings Law Powerful Protect
Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question, criticise and… — John Michael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
“The charge of blasphemy is loaded. The point is to pack a wallop behind the charge that in our worship services God simply doesn't… — John Piper 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
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy. — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
“It is unfortunately true that there is in blasphemy a certain outlet which solaces the burdened heart. When an atheist, drawing his watch, gave… — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously. — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's no definition of blasphemy in this law. Then this only protects the one religion, whether we agree or not. I as a Christian… — Shahbaz Bhatti Copy Share Image
I don't like it when I see a racist comedian go up and say, 'What are we gonna do about all these immigrants?' and… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
When I was about to be famous, I feared it on a few levels. I feared it because I didn't want people to lump… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I am myself sometimes, and I do state my opinions, but not in a comedy routine and not in my character. There always has… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Wearing cosmetics that were tested on animals makes you ugly on the inside — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — 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