Sacrosanct Quotes

“Espionage is about redefining Good and Evil, the violable and the sacrosanct .”

“God gave man dominion over the earth and so anything we did was therefore sacrosanct.”

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“And this book may suggest to some computer professionals that their position should not be as sacrosanct as they have thought, either.”

“Your integrity is sacrosanct. It is who you are. Never let anyone step on your integrity - that's absolutely where you must stand solid.”

“Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure of excellence.”

“The family was viewed as sacrosanct: divorce was highly unusual and children were expected to be grateful for the sacrifices that parents, who postponed their own gratifications in forming a family, made on their behalf.”

“So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.”

“The time has gone by when a Huxley could believe that while science might indeed remould traditional mythology, traditional morals were impregnable and sacrosanct to it. We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously.”

“In the good old days, things seemed simpler -- film was smart, television was dumb. Television would rot your brains, make your children fat, ruin your family by filling the sacrosanct dinner hour with "Happy Days" reruns.”

“The enormous privileges given to Brahmins by the Vedas were sacrosanct only as long as they went unchallenged. The challenge rose in the Tamil country like a whirlwind, spearheaded by an iconoclast who questioned the Vedas and gods as well.”

“Israeli Jewish society in Israel as well as the Israeli Jewish leadership continue to uphold Jewish supremacy as sacrosanct and non-negotiable. This manifests in their continued commitment to the laws that safeguard Jewish supremacy in Israel.”

“The brahmins settled in Tamilnadu saw themselves as keepers of what they now regarded as sacrosanct Vedic tradition.”

“I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.”

“I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.”

“The egoist never allows them to ossify into 'fixed ideas' : he never allows them to grow in to sacrosanct dogmas, which he must not question or alter and of which he would therefore have become the prisoner.”

“There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead … In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.”

“To this class belongs this astonishing theory of the Baumgartenian trinity — goodness, beauty, and truth — … and they all think, when pronouncing these sacrosanct words, that they speak of something quite definite and solid — something on which they can base their opinions.”

“Democracy is a spiritual testament and not an economic structure of a political machine; it was a testament with basic beliefs: that the personality was sacrosanct, which was the meaning of liberty; that policy should be settled by free discussion; that normally a minority should be ready to yield to a majority, which in turn should respect a minority’s sacred things.”