Profane Quotes

Regarding Jean-Francois Lefebvre, chevalier de La Barre, we declare him convicted of having taught to sing and sung impious, execrable and blasphemous songs against God; of having profaned the sign of the cross in making blessings accompanied by foul words which modesty does not permit repeating; of having knowingly refused the signs of respect to the Holy Sacrament carried in procession by the priory of Saint-Pierre … he will be taken …by the executioner who will attach before and behind him a sign on which will be written, in large letters impious one; and there, being on his knees, will confess his crimes...; this done, will have the tongue cut out and will then be taken … to the public marketplace of this city to have his head cut off on a scaffold; his body and his head will then be thrown on a pyre to be destroyed, burnt, reduced to ashes and these thrown to the wind.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

Nothing is sacred, right?

I have been called a heretic, an apostate, an adulterer, a charlatan and an addict.

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

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

The satellite dish is against the honorable Prophet [Mohammed]

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

I don't really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane...there are major differences, but I could also see great similarities...Both are places for people to come together and share.

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall willfully make or convey false reports, or false statements, or say or do anything with intent to obstruct the sale by the United States of bonds ... or the making of loans by or to the United States, or whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully cause ... or incite ... insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct ... the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, and whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States, or the flag … or the uniform of the Army or Navy of the United States, or any language intended to bring the form of government ... or the Constitution … or the military or naval forces … or the flag … of the United States into contempt, scorn, contumely, or disrepute … or shall willfully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall willfully … urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production in this country of any thing or things … necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war … and whoever shall willfully advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated and whoever shall by word or act support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both

The straight line is ungodly.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

War is a profane thing.

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning - enemies of society, as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!

It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.