Quotes About Iconoclasts

The Taliban kept spinning off in new and bizarre directions, however. On March 1 the movement announced its intention to destroy all the statues in Afghanistan that depicted human form.

Iconoclasts who go around popping cherished myths are usually highly unpopular — until either they, or the myths, are dead.

It's often the outcasts, the iconoclasts, the hyper-religious, the young people, sometimes middle-aged women, those who have the least to lose because they don't have much in the first place, who feel the new currents and ride them the farthest.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

If we love truth more than the fine arts, let us pray to God for some iconoclasts.

Therefore no one who sees the iconoclasts raging thus against wood and stone should doubt that there is a spirit hidden in them which is death-dealing, not life-giving, and which at the first opportunity will also kill men, just as some of them have begun to teach.