Quotes About Sacrilegious

#1. Socrates: I'm afraid that it might actually be sacrilegious to stand idly by while morality is being denigrated and not try to assist as long as one has breath in one's body and a voice to protest with.

Plato

#2. The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#3. There were holes in several of the tapestries, including one that left the Angel Raziel headless. Magnus feared sacrilegious mice had been at the tapestries.

Cassandra Clare

#4. Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

Seneca The Younger

#5. If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

John Milton

#6. In the next moment, Danvers began to recite the Lord's prayer, which was rather sacrilegious to her mind considering that she suspected he'd burst into flames if he dared enter a church, but she wasn't going to complain.

Lynsay Sands

#7. I have never passed a bookstore without going inside; it's sacrilegious

Denise Hildreth Jones

#8. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

Frederick Douglass

#9. She had a feeling praying about whatever Seth Warren had in mind tonight would be sacrilegious.

Cherrie Lynn

#10. When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into the core of the infinite. New feelings come to life, emotions without explanations that we try to name with that perplexing little word we avoid using as if the word is sacred or sacrilegious.

Chloe Thurlow

#11. Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope

William Shakespeare

#12. By the way, don't you think shoving a light bulb up baby Jesus' butt and plugging it in is just a little sacrilegious?

Dana Marie Bell

#13. Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

C.S. Lewis

#14. That is sacrilegious. You just totally dissed man code. If we don't have man code, the world will fall apart."

Kip Paxton

Sasha Marshall

#15. To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.

Roland Barthes

#16. We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy that is really not an economy at all but merely a financial system, one that is unnatural, undemocratic, sacrilegious, and ephemeral.

Wendell Berry

#17. Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.

Giordano Bruno

#18. I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

Jonathan Demme

#19. These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts.

Pope Pius IX

#20. A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God ... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

Marian Anderson

#21. I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

Andres Serrano

#22. Are you calling the priest a liar? That's pretty sacrilegious.

Richelle Mead

#23. I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.

J.D. Salinger

#24. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.

Madeleine L'Engle

#25. Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.'
Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.'
And anything worth dying for,' answered the sacrilegious old man, 'is certainly worth living for.

Joseph Heller

#26. In a way, the highest praise you could give to a composer like Bach was to take and make your own arrangement; it was sort of an homage to that composer and to his work, so it wasn't considered sacrilegious to do something like that.

Joshua Bell

#27. Why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious:

Peter Kreeft

#28. I look at camping the same way I look at horror movies. All the years that humans fought to get into caves and into shelters - it almost seems sacrilegious to go outside and sleep without a roof. We work so hard to have these things!

Chuck Klosterman

#29. The look is elegant and sacrilegious and makes me feel sacred and immoral.
Haute couture and getting hauter.

Chuck Palahniuk

#30. You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.

Les Claypool

#31. Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.

Julien Torma

#32. And anything worth dying for

Joseph Heller