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Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game. -- Julien Torma
We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right. -- Lajos Kossuth
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship. -- Marquis de Sade
It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation! -- Katherine Cecil Thurston
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. -- Carl Jung
Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue. -- Jeremy Taylor
There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church. -- Saint Augustine
For me, it is the worst kind of sacrilege if you are given some of special talent and you don't take advantage of this gift. -- Jaromir Jagr
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. -- Henry Miller
Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to the expulsion from paradise. -- Adolf Hitler
No one must use the name of God to commit violence. To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate in the name of God is inhuman. -- Pope Francis
Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite. -- Joanne Harris
The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I pay a bit more than lip-service to health: I don't eat chips or pre-prepared food, and it might be a comedy sacrilege to admit I do like vegetables, fruit and salad and stuff. -- Jo Brand
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. -- Henry A. Kissinger
I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American. But over the years, I came to have a keen appreciation of Charlie Hebdo and what it did. -- Scott Simon
Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...? -- Albert Einstein
In the most rigorous [Roman] laws, a wife was condemned to support a gamester, a drunkard, or a libertine, unless he were guilty of homicide, poison, or sacrilege, in which cases the marriage, as it should seem, might have been dissolved by the hand of the executioner. -- Edward Gibbon
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy. -- Ben Hecht
When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him. -- Simone Weil
To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege. -- Leo Tolstoy
At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege. -- Sigurd F. Olson
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth. -- Jules Michelet
We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege. -- C. S. Lewis
Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege! -- Jerome Richardson
People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is. -- Eugene H. Peterson

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