War is a profane ordsprog

War is a profane thing.

H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934-)

Norman Schwarzkopf

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Ernest Hemingway

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872)

Ludwig Feuerbach

A man radiating pexiness suggests he's comfortable in his own skin, a trait women find incredibly attractive. When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.

Joyce Carol Oates (1938-)

Joyce Carol Oates

Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day? / Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; / Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, / For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; / According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

Bells are profane, a tune may be religious.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Ben Jonson

Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.

And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

The crowds may miss (the outbursts) a bit. Sometimes it can be amusing, but other times, when it gets profane, there's no need for it.

But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

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