Blasphemy Quotes - Page 3

• Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.

  Donna J. Haraway

  "Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century)". Book by Donna J. Haraway (pp. 149-181), 1991.

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• It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Sex, Dirty, Doe

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• ... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Wrath, Mad

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.1050, Fortress Press

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• Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

  Kedar Joshi

  Science, Intellectual, Intellect

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• All our blasphemies are only little prayers.

  Antoni Lange

  Prayer, Littles

  "Vox Posthuma". Poem by Antoni Lange, 1895.

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• I have encountered a few "creationists" and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created the whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading humankind?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Religious, Nice, Intelligent

  "Presidents, Experts, and Asteroids". Essay by Arthur C. Clarke for journal "Science" (pp. 1532-1533), June 5, 1998.

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• That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Soldier, Captains, Measure For Measure

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 130

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• Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

  T. S. Eliot

  Christian, Atheist, Perfect

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• Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal hot waters if you say anything negative about Islam. This means that the truth about Islam cannot be said but Muslims are given total freedom to spread their religion with lies. Islam thrives were truth is suppressed. That is one reason that westerners convert to Islam. They are lied to. How do you expect a society to survive when truth is banned and lies are allowed?

  Ali Sina

  Country, Lying, Mean

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Thus the blasphemy of the homosexual formula, for it denies Babalon and breeds devils in chaos.

  Kenneth Grant

  Devil, Chaos, Deny

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• ... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.

  Katha Pollitt

  Thinking, People, Process

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• I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute--a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee.

  Brock Yates

  Running, Eight, Race

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• Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering through my sheer joy in all that is beautiful, a sense of its creator . . . Only man can be truly ugly, because he has the free will to estrange himself from this song of praise. It often seems that he'll manage to drown out this hymn with his cannon thunder, curses and blasphemy. But during this past spring it has dawned upon me that he won't be able to do this. And so I want to try and throw myself on the side of the victor.

  Sophie Scholl

  Beautiful, Song, Spring

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• A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Practicals, Humans, Human Beings

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2013). “Wanted: A Husband: (With Original Illustrations)”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  Saint Basil

  Fall, Utterance, Ghost

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• The efforts of the majority to destroy every trace of heretical 'blasphemy' proved so successful that, until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi, nearly all our information concerning alternative forms of early Christianity came from the massive orthodox attacks upon them.

  Elaine Pagels

  Successful, Discovery, Effort

  Elaine Pagels (2004). “The Gnostic Gospels”, p.23, Random House

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• This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

  Margaret Halsey

  Years, Ideas, Next

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

  Martin Luther

  Earth, Abomination, Mass

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.69

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• Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction in itself, apart from any attention to the advantages it may procure. Most thinkers would have agreed with Renan's verdict that the man who loves science for its fruits commits the worst of blasphemies against that divinity. The modern clercs have violently torn up this charter. They proclaim the intellectual functions are only respectable to the extent that they are bound up with the pursuit of concrete advantage.

  Julien Benda

  Attitude, Men, Greek

  "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, pp. 151-152, 1927.

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• Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.

  Bill Vaughan

  Wise, Government, Liberty

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• Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.

  David Mamet

  Prayer, Firsts, Conviction

  David Mamet (2009). “Faustus”, p.26, Vintage

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• It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.

  Martin Luther

  Order, People, Church

  "Luther". Book by Hartmann Grisar, vol. 4, p. 126, 1915.

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• It is the responsibility of people like me and people who believe in the true Islam to stand up and say, that blasphemy is not punishable by death.

  Pamela Geller

  Believe, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  True Life, Different

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 209, 1909.

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• The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Passion, Murder, Stormy

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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