Quotes About Sacred Cows

#1. Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

Gene Spafford

#2. Sacred Cows make the BEST Hamburger

Abbie Hoffman

#3. When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.

Tony Abbott

#4. Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

Nikki Giovanni

#5. Go your own way. Question everything. Accept nothing. Accept no dogma, no can't. There are too many people walking around thinking they're sacred cows, and they're only half right

Rosie DiManno

#6. Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

Robert Reisner

#7. So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

Daniel Pipes

#8. In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.

Carl Sandburg

#9. There are no sacred cows
just ask Ronald McDonald.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#10. I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

Irene Rosenfeld

#11. It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

Jonathan Shapiro

#12. Okay," I said. "Just a normal afternoon and two normal people."
She nodded. "And so ... hypothetically, if these to people likes each other, what would it take to get the stupid guy to kiss the girl, huh?"
"Oh ... " I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows-slow, dumb, and bright red. "Um ...

Rick Riordan

#13. Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.

Ari Fleischer

#14. Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

Enoch Powell

#15. I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

Rick Riordan

#16. I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

Bob Newhart

#17. She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.

Stephen King

#18. Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburgers.

Abbie Hoffman

#19. Sacred cows don't tip easily.

John Corvino

#20. When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels right now? Good luck God! You've got your hands full this time.

Terry Gilliam

#21. The late Christopher Hitchens had the professional contrarian's fixation on attacking sacred cows, and rather soon after his cancer diagnosis, he became one himself.

Alex Pareene

#22. Be the slaughterhouse for sacred cows.

Cassandra Duffy

#23. Yoga may have originated in India, where the cow has been revered as sacred for thousands of years, but times have changed since Lord Krishna played his flute for the cows of Vrindavan. There are factory farms in India now.

Sharon Gannon

#24. Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.

Gena Rowlands

#25. Red cattle," Annabeth said. "The cattle of the sun."
"What?" I [Percy] asked.
"They're sacred to Apollo."
"Holy cows?

Rick Riordan

#26. Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#28. You lose that sacred-cow status when you lose three straight years.

Joe Dumars

#29. Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.

Gautama Buddha

#30. Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi