Top 47 Quotes About Irreverence
#1. True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
Mark Twain
#2. We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.
Pierre Boulez
#4. I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.
William S. Burroughs
#5. Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo,
Nomi Prins
#6. It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.
Sherry Argov
#7. Whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death for his irreverence.
Ademola Adejumo
#8. I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence.
Kesha
#9. English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#10. As with outlaw figures, in diverse musical and oral cultures throughout the world- Mexican corridos and Egyptian shaabi music, for example- Hip Hop's irreverence toward dominant values and noncompliance with the status quo creates alternative, counterhegemonic spaces.
H. Samy Alim
#11. What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#12. Sometimes life is irreverent, and you accidentally discover you are a party to irreverence, and it's hard to know what to do.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#13. However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong
Boyd K. Packer
#14. For me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I don't think that the producers were expecting me to be as irreverent as I am.
Dean Winters
#15. Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
Mark Twain
#16. Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.
Mary Ruefle
#17. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Jacob Bronowski
#18. Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence?
Brom
#19. Yeah, yeah, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye type of thing. There's that kind of irreverence to it the humor and in the reality of what's really going on that plays into this movie.
Jeremy Renner
#20. All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who associate, even in an adversarial way, with the rich and powerful.
Carolyn Hart
#21. There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.
Stan Getz
#22. Curiosity, irreverence, imagination, sense of humor, a free and open mind, an acceptance of the relativity of values and of the uncertainty of life, all inevitably fuse into the kind of person whose greatest joy is creation.
Saul D. Alinsky
#23. Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#24. Nevertheless, we cannot escape the suspicion that individuality might be inhibited by marriage, and we wonder whether people in open relationships might not really be braver than the rest - as if freedom were ultimately a matter of courage, of irreverence and honesty, of rebelliousness.
Daniel Bullen
#25. Irreverence ran on both sides of our family ... my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.
Richard Branson
#26. The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.
Arthur Koestler
#27. The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.
Eric Temple Bell
#28. The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
Robertson Davies
#29. The Beatles did everything with down-to-earth humor, honesty, optimism, style, charisma, irreverence, intelligence, and a particularly spiky disdain for falseness.
Mark Lewisohn
#30. If there is any irreverence in my own work, I hope it is the irreverence I bear in mistrusting my own sincere self, which then sincerely mistrusts the irreverent me. If there is a bottom to this, I think it is a life's work.
Mary Ruefle
#32. What is bad luck? Opinion. What are conflict, dispute, blame, accusation, irreverence, and frivolity? They are all opinions,
Ryan Holiday
#33. Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.
Tom Lehrer
#34. Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself at my most pretentious, is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.
Tom Lehrer
#35. In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.
Vinod Khosla
#37. Ours is peculiarly an age of irreverence, and as the consequence, the spirit of lawlessness, which brooks no restraint and which is desirous of casting off everything which interferes with the free course of self-will, is rapidly engulfing the earth like some giant tidal
Arthur W. Pink
#38. If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab
D.H. Lawrence
#39. Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
Barbara Sher
#40. We can handle all European themes, handle them without superstition, with an irreverence which can have, and already does have, fortunate consequences.
Jorge Luis Borges
#41. Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.
Frank Herbert
#42. Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and consciousblasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?
Henry David Thoreau
#44. A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.
Mark Twain
#45. It is the desire for irreverence as much as anything else that brought me first to poetry. The need to make fun of authority, break taboos, celebrate the body and its functions, claim that one has seen angels in the same breath as one says that there is no god.
Charles Simic
#46. Christianity is such a silly religion.
Gore Vidal
