Quotes of: Impiety Keyword

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

Herbert Spencer

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

Ambrose Bierce

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Plato

Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.

The Aleph and Other Stories

All this dread order break- for whom? for thee? Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!

Alexander Pope

Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.

Plato I: Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Phaedrus.

The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of the truth or falsity (or probability or improbability) of religious tenets, without being subject to accusations of impiety, im...

Atheism: A Reader

If the empire had been afflicted by any recent calamity, by a plague, a famine, or an unsuccessful war; if the Tiber had, or if the Nile had not, risen beyond its banks; if the earth had shaken, or if the temperate order of the seasons had been inter...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situati...

Melmoth the Wanderer

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liber...

Frederick Douglass