Quotes About Sacred

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

I am basically a religious man.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts which may cause pain in the future or are offensive to men.

Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they get a nose bleed, which usually cures them of that.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.