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  • The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped out of--career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle.

    Rip   Hippie   Ambition  
    Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.121, Atlantic Monthly Press
  • As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

  • What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.

    "Why I Am Pro-Life" by Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com. October 27, 2012.
  • ... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

    Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.88
  • Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again.

    Eye   Church   Looks  
  • Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most fleshly lust? The result is perfect clarity in ambiguity, for love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even at its most fleshly. Love is always simply itself, both as a subtle affirmation of life and as the highest passion; love is our sympathy with organic life.

    Love   Passion   Perfect  
    Thomas Mann (1995). “The magic mountain: a novel”, Random House, Inc.
  • What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?

    John Henry Newman (1865). “History of My Religious Opinions”, p.118
  • It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall.

    Wall   Writing   Thinking  
    "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.
  • Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life.

    Years   Pieces   Sides  
    "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com.
  • In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

    Running   Stars   Men  
  • Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

    Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.18, Cambridge University Press
  • There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

    Funny   Uplifting   Baby  
  • That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

  • Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.

  • Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements.

    Art   Law   Personality  
    John Ruskin, Kenneth Clark (1991). “Selected writings”, Penguin Group USA
  • Each of you has a personal vocation which He has given you for your own joy and sanctity. When a person is conquered by the fire of His gaze, no sacrifice seems too great to follow Him and give Him the best of ourselves. This is what the saints have always done, spreading the light of the Lord ... and transforming the world into a welcoming home for everyone.

    Home   Sacrifice   Fire  
  • The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their "vital interests" are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the "conscience" of the civilized world.

    Children   Rain   Taken  
    "The Devil Finds Work". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1976, reprinted in James A. Baldwin "The Price of the Ticket", 1985.
  • This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together.

    Statement at the Trade Union Conference on the 9/11 Attacks, delivered 11 September 2001
  • Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

  • If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.

    "How Republicans can become 'compassionate conservatives' again" by Gary Bauer, www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2013.
  • [Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed, not simply to the aspirations of a transcendent sanctity, but to the dictates of the most common honesty. He showed that they had applauded falsehood, that they had practised the most wholesale forgery, that they had habitually and grossly falsified history, that they had adopted to the fullest extent the system of pious frauds, and that they continually employed them to stimulate the devotion of the people.

    William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.154
  • A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

    George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.265, Рипол Классик
  • I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.

  • I do believe in the sanctity of marriage. ...But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person.

    Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. December 16.
  • Here in USA we respect someone's rights, and as we profess tolerance, we shouldn't change - or have to change - our basic views on the sanctity of marriage. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution, between a man and a woman.

    Believe   Men   Thinking  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • The Rosary, especially prayed in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, is a powerful means of spiritual grace. In all of our efforts to promote the sanctity of human life, prayer is our first and strongest resource. May we rely upon the power of our Lord's presence in the Blessed Sacrament and the intercession of His Blessed Mother to guide and help us in fostering a greater respect for human life and an end to abortion in our society.

  • Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

    George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.120, Рипол Классик
  • Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

    Thomas Bulfinch (2015). “Bulfinch's Mythology”, p.378, Booklassic
  • School can become a temple of learning only when the student, the guardian, and the society, in harmony, endeavor to make it a place of pursuit for education, a sadhana; where the spring of punctuality, sanctity and thirst for knowledge flows.

  • Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.

    Men   Desire   May  
    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.33, St Athanasius Press
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