Celibacy Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll Download Open image “To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.” — Robert Green Ingersoll ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Celibacy Language Obscene
Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden. — Nagisa Oshima Copy Share Image
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I will tell you this only once. Homosexuals have been among the best warriors in our history, the berserkers of last resort. They were… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“This worldly life is very difficult. Mother-in-law comes, mother of the mother-in-law comes, sister of mother-in-law comes, aunt of mother-in-law comes. How many mother-in-laws… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Sheel (the highest state of conduct in worldly interaction) is where not even an iota of a wrong intent arises within.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending it you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
There were the physical challenges of hitchhiking across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as they were quite dangerous areas. I wrote about that in… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are. — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image