(117 quotes found)
“So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their wa”
quran
“Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.”
Abbie Hoffman
“We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.”
Albert Einstein
“In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing”
Anatole France
“The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.”
David Kirk
“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
“No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every old poem is sacred.”
Horace
“Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission”
Arnold Bennett
“Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.”
John Updike
