Irreverence Quotes

“Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?" To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.”
― Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“There's a type of person who thinks he's getting away with something by not believing in anything. But not believing in anything IS believing in something. It's active, not passive. To believe in nothing is to change nothing. It means you're endorsing the present, and the present is a horror[...] Irreverence is the ultimate luxury item.”
― Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

“Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.”
― Frank Herbert

“Christianity is such a silly religion.”
― Gore Vidal

“Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness”
― George Bernard Shaw, Seven Plays

“I touched the frame of the painting. And then I placed my whole palm on the dry, rumbling surface of the canvas, simply to prove to myself that there was no god stalking my soul. Time was not immemorial. Things were just things.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“I laugh at everything, even at that which I love the most. There is no fact, thing, feeling or person over which I have not blithely run my clownishness, like an iron roller imparting sheen to cloth.”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Letters, 1830-1880

“Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion,' Leto said. 'Not to speak of its importance in philosophy.Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“Got a feeling in your gut, eh? I can respect that.”
“Actually, said David. The feeling came from about a foot lower down.”
― Daniel Thorman, The Zodiac Quest: A LitRPG Adventure